Okolona First United Methodist Church

Okolona First United Methodist Church is a church in Okolona, MS 38860. It is one of 44 churches in Okolona.

Okolona, MS, 38860

Okolona First 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 Okolona First United Methodist Church

It takes 3.6 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 nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third 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: 46.5%
Child Poverty: 45.1% (28.7–61.5%)
Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
Food Insecurity: 32.5%
Diabetes: 21.3%
Social Isolation: 38.1%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.1%
Poverty Rate: 29.6% (20.1–39.0%)
Housing Insecurity: 23.4%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (7.5–17.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Okolona First United Methodist Church

First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
Grace Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
Okolona Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
North Gatlin Street Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
Okolona First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Saint Theresa Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
St Theresa's Church Catholic Center — 0.3 mi away
Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.6 mi away

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