Petal United Methodist Church
Petal United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Petal, MS 39465. It is one of 47 churches in Petal.
Petal, MS, 39465Petal 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 Petal United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Food Insecurity: 23.0%
- Obesity: 36.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
- Child Poverty: 24.3% (9.4–39.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
- Poverty Rate: 17.2% (8.6–25.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (8.4–21.5%)
- Diabetes: 13.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (2.4–11.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Petal city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 483 residents.
Churches near Petal United Methodist Church
- Petal-Harvey Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Arise PHBC — 0.1 mi away
- Petal Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Dominion and Power Family Life Center — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church of Petal — 0.5 mi away
- Woodlawn Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Petal Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Dominion and Power Family Life — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint James Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.6 mi away in Hattiesburg, MS
- Zion Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.6 mi away in Hattiesburg, MS
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away in Hattiesburg, MS
- Main Street United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away in Hattiesburg, MS
- Court Street United Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Hattiesburg, MS