Marks United Methodist Church
Marks United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Marks, MS 38646. It is one of 31 churches in Marks.
Marks, MS, 38646Marks 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 Marks United Methodist Church
It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 51.9%
- Food Insecurity: 39.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.1%
- Diabetes: 24.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Child Poverty: 35.1% (17.6–52.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Poverty Rate: 24.8% (16.6–33.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.2%
- Unemployment: 10.4% (3.5–17.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (7.4–16.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Marks United Methodist Church
- Marks Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Belmount M. B. Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Marks — 0.1 mi away
- Marks Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Silent Grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Valley Queen Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Paradise MB Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Church of God — 1.2 mi away
- West Marks Church — 1.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lyon United Methodist Church — 15.7 mi away in Lyon, MS
- Clarksdale United Methodist Church — 17.7 mi away in Clarksdale, MS
- First United Methodist Church — 17.7 mi away in Clarksdale, MS
- Haven United Methodist Church — 17.8 mi away in Clarksdale, MS
- Friendship African Methodist Episcopal Church — 17.8 mi away in Clarksdale, MS