Forest Hill United Methodist Church
Forest Hill United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Jackson, MS 39212. It is one of 479 churches in Jackson, and one of 29 Methodist congregations in the city.
Jackson, MS, 39212Shares a ministry location with Middlebrook United Methodist Church.
Forest Hill United 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 Forest Hill United 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 48.4%
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.6%
- Food Insecurity: 36.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.1%
- Diabetes: 18.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (3.0–14.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 17.2% (8.0–26.4%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (7.5–18.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Jackson city is served by 237 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.
Churches near Forest Hill United Methodist Church
- Middlebrook United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Glory Empowerment Center — 0.1 mi away
- Forest Hill Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Timberlawn Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt. Olive Church of Christ Holiness (USA) — 0.6 mi away
- Forest Hill Assembly of God Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.7 mi away
- Live Right and Prosper — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Asbury Congregational Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- First Independent Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Leavell Woods United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Van Winkle United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
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