First United Methodist Church of Laurel
First United Methodist Church of Laurel is a Methodist church in Laurel, MS 39440. It is one of 144 churches in Laurel, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Laurel, MS, 39440First United Methodist Church of Laurel 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 United Methodist Church of Laurel
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 3 in 4 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. 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: 72.9%
- Food Insecurity: 26.0%
- Obesity: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.1% (13.1–37.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.9% (5.6–22.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Laurel city is served by 45 churches — about one congregation for every 217 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church of Laurel
- First-Trinity Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of Laurel — 0.1 mi away
- Agape Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Laurel — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Golden Harvest Ministries Church — 0.2 mi away
- LivingWord House of Israel Ministry — 0.3 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church of Laurel — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Kingston United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Justice Heights United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Franklin United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Lake Congregationalist Methodist Church — 7.2 mi away
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