Ripley First United Methodist Church
Ripley First United Methodist Church is a church in Ripley, MS 38663. It is one of 64 churches in Ripley.
Ripley, MS, 38663Ripley 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 Ripley 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Food Insecurity: 21.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (7.3–25.6%)
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Unemployment: 10.9% (2.2–19.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Ripley city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 200 residents.
Churches near Ripley First United Methodist Church
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ripley Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ripley First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church Complex — 0.3 mi away
- First Evangelical Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ripley Second Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Terry Street Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- First United Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- St. James Church Of God In Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Ripley Primitive Baptist Church — 1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- HeartSong Church — 2.3 mi away
- Blue Mountain United Methodist Church — 6 mi away in Blue Mountain, MS
- Falkner Methodist Church — 7.8 mi away in Falkner, MS
- Bethel Methodist Church — 10.7 mi away in Blue Mountain, MS
- Ebenezer Methodist Church — 13.1 mi away in Walnut, MS
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