First United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Philadelphia, MS 39350. It is one of 100 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Philadelphia, MS, 39350First 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 3 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 the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 47.6%
- Poverty Rate: 35.1% (22.6–47.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Diabetes: 20.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (2.2–15.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (5.6–16.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 451 residents.
Churches near First United Methodist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- East Philadelphia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Philadelphia Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Noxapater, MS
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Global Vision Faith Center — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Holy Cross Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Philadelphia Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Stevens Chapel United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Sandtown United Methodist Church — 6.1 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 6.5 mi away
- Golden Grove Methodist Protestant Church — 9.7 mi away in Union, MS
- Union United Methodist Church — 13.7 mi away in Union, MS
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