Buffalo African Methodist Episcopal Church
Buffalo African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Kosciusko, MS 39090. It is one of 64 churches in Kosciusko, and one of 6 Methodist congregations in the city.
Kosciusko, MS, 39090Buffalo African Methodist Episcopal 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 Buffalo African Methodist Episcopal Church
It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 48.0% (32.2–63.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 29.5%
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Poverty Rate: 29.3% (19.8–38.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.5%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Buffalo African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Fargo Assembly — 1.8 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Ethel, MS
- Marvins Chapel Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Plantation Church — 2 mi away in Ethel, MS
- Marvel Rock Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- St Matthew's Episcopal Church — 3 mi away
- Saint Therese Catholic Church — 3 mi away
- New Life Center — 3.2 mi away
- Grace Fellowship Church — 3.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 3.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Marvins Chapel Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Kosciusko First United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.7 mi away
- New Garden African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.8 mi away
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