West Park United Methodist Church
West Park United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Jackson, MS 39209. It is one of 479 churches in Jackson, and one of 29 Methodist congregations in the city.
Jackson, MS, 39209West Park 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 West Park United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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: 61.7% (41.9–81.5%)
- Obesity: 53.7%
- Food Insecurity: 52.6%
- Poverty Rate: 48.1% (33.6–62.6%)
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.5%
- Diabetes: 25.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.9% (15.3–32.6%)
- Unemployment: 18.6% (9.2–27.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.0%
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 West Park United Methodist Church
- Amazing Institutional Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Parkway Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Abounding Grace World Healing Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Bethel Church of Christ Holiness — 0.4 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Community Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Rosemont M.B. Church — 0.7 mi away
- Open Door Mennonite Church — 0.7 mi away
- Capitol Street Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Washington Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Anderson United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- New Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away
- Lynch Street Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.5 mi away
- Van Winkle United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
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