First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a church in Lucedale, MS 39452. It is one of 105 churches in Lucedale.

Lucedale, MS, 39452

First United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 620 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Mississippi — 25,985 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

Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 55.1% (39.8–70.5%)
  • Poverty Rate: 32.7% (22.4–43.1%)
  • Obesity: 40.6%
  • Social Isolation: 36.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.8%
  • Diabetes: 16.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Lucedale city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 229 residents.

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