Athens United Methodist Church
Athens United Methodist Church is a church at 50208 Schoolhouse Rd in Monroe County, MS 39730.
Services in Spanish and Portuguese and Korean
50208 Schoolhouse Rd, Monroe County, MS, 39730Phone: +16623699206 · Website: http://www.umc.org
Athens United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Athens United Methodist Church
It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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: 41.9%
- Social Isolation: 33.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.0%
- Food Insecurity: 20.5%
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Poverty Rate: 16.3% (6.8–25.7%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (8.3–19.2%)
- Unemployment: 6.8% (0.7–13.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Athens United Methodist Church
- Athens Independent Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Paine Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Athens Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Riverbend Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in Aberdeen, MS
- Saint Paul Church — 1.8 mi away
- The Church Of God — 2 mi away in Aberdeen, MS
- River Bend Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Aberdeen, MS
- Smiths Chapel Sanctified Church — 2.7 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Calvary Independent Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away