First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Morton, MS 39117. It is one of 44 churches in Morton, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Morton, MS, 39117First 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 First United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. 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. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.0%
- Food Insecurity: 37.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
- Poverty Rate: 33.7% (17.2–50.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.0%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.5% (6.9–32.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Morton city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 406 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- LifeSpring Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the King — 0.3 mi away
- North Morton Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Holy Hill Church — 0.9 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest MBC — 1.4 mi away
- Church of God — 1.6 mi away
- Two Mile Church — 1.6 mi away
- Morton United Pentecostal Church — 1.7 mi away
- First United Church — 1.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Concord Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Pelahatchie Methodist Church — 8.7 mi away in Pelahatchie, MS
- Forest Methodist Church — 11.1 mi away in Forest, MS
- Evergreen United Methodist Church — 15.9 mi away in Brandon, MS
- Lena Methodist Church — 16.6 mi away in Lena, MS
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