Sanford United Methodist Church
Sanford United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Seminary, MS 39479. It is one of 22 churches in Seminary, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Seminary, MS, 39479Sanford 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 Sanford United Methodist Church
It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Social Isolation: 34.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (7.9–22.2%)
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Poverty Rate: 20.9% (10.8–31.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 17.4%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sanford United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church of Sanford — 0.1 mi away
- Sanford Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
- New Fellowship Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Moselle, MS
- Shelton Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Moselle, MS
- Jesus Name Apostolic Church — 5.3 mi away
- The Blended Church — 5.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Sumrall, MS
More Methodist churches nearby
- Seminary United Methodist Church — 6.4 mi away
- Eminence United Methodist Church — 8.2 mi away
- Sumrall United Methodist Church — 8.5 mi away in Sumrall, MS
- Moselle United Methodist Church — 8.8 mi away in Moselle, MS
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 11.1 mi away in Collins, MS
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