First Independent Methodist Church
First Independent Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Jackson, MS 39204. It is one of 479 churches in Jackson, and one of 29 Methodist congregations in the city.
Jackson, MS, 39204First Independent Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 614 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Mississippi — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around First Independent Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 70.5% (50.6–90.4%)
- Obesity: 53.8%
- Food Insecurity: 52.0%
- Poverty Rate: 49.8% (34.5–65.1%)
- Social Isolation: 43.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.7%
- Diabetes: 21.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.8% (12.1–29.5%)
- Unemployment: 15.8% (8.9–22.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.1% (13.7–23.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Jackson city is served by 237 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.
Churches near First Independent Methodist Church
- Christian’s Community Center — 0.1 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Alabaster Church of God In Christ — 0.5 mi away
- McDowell Road Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- Disciples Of Christ Family Worship Center — 0.6 mi away in Edwards, MS
- Anderson South United Method — 0.6 mi away
- Westview Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Alta Woods United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Leavell Woods United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Greater Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.8 mi away
- Lynch Street Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.9 mi away
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