Pearl River United Methodist Church
Pearl River United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in McComb, MS 39648. It is one of 75 churches in McComb, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
McComb, MS, 39648Pearl River 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 Pearl River United Methodist Church
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. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than 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: 61.8% (46.1–77.6%)
- Obesity: 55.1%
- Food Insecurity: 50.5%
- Poverty Rate: 46.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.8%
- Diabetes: 25.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.5% (8.8–20.3%)
- Unemployment: 7.1% (0.6–13.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
McComb city is served by 32 churches — about one congregation for every 392 residents.
Churches near Pearl River United Methodist Church
- East McComb Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
- Gospel Assembly Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Harrell Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- The Well — 0.6 mi away
- First Apostolic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Locust Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- White Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Church of the Mediator — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Summit United Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Summit, MS
- Magnolia United Methodist Church — 6.9 mi away in Magnolia, MS
- Tylertown United Methodist Church — 19.8 mi away in Tylertown, MS
- Divide Methodist Protestant — 21 mi away in Monticello, MS
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