Newton First Methodist Protestant Church
Newton First Methodist Protestant Church is a Methodist church in Newton, MS 39345. It is one of 35 churches in Newton, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Newton, MS, 39345Newton First Methodist Protestant 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 Newton First Methodist Protestant Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 46.7%
- Food Insecurity: 35.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Poverty Rate: 30.8% (20.3–41.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.2%
- Diabetes: 20.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
- Child Poverty: 28.4% (11.0–45.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (6.0–16.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Newton First Methodist Protestant Church
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hope Well House of Prayer of the Apostolic Faith, Inc. — 0.5 mi away in Rose Hill, MS
- Newton Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ Newton — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Clyde Church — 1 mi away
- Newton Presbyterian Church — 1.3 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Newton United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Newton United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Decatur Methodist Church — 8.8 mi away in Decatur, MS
- Forest Methodist Church — 17 mi away in Forest, MS
- Union United Methodist Church — 17.4 mi away in Union, MS
- Reads Chapel Methodist Church — 18 mi away in Louin, MS
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