College Park United Methodist Church
College Park United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Meridian, MS 39307. It is one of 221 churches in Meridian, and one of 6 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Meridian, MS, 39307College Park 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 College Park United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly 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: 87.9%
- Obesity: 52.6%
- Food Insecurity: 52.5%
- Poverty Rate: 46.7% (34.3–59.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 41.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 28.6%
- Diabetes: 23.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.4% (6.6–20.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Meridian city is served by 90 churches — about one congregation for every 361 residents.
Churches near College Park United Methodist Church
- Westwood Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Freedom Rock Christian Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- First Apostolic Church — 0.6 mi away
- GATES of PEARL Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Abundant Life Tabernacle — 0.6 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- College Park Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Arrowood Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Ourfam Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Fifth Street United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Mer Parish United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Highland United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Druid Hills United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
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