Thaxton United Methodist Church
Thaxton United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Thaxton, MS 38871. It is one of 12 churches in Thaxton.
Thaxton, MS, 38871Thaxton 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 Thaxton United Methodist Church
It takes 3.5 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 35.2%
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Child Poverty: 24.1% (10.6–37.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.0%
- Poverty Rate: 16.4% (9.9–22.9%)
- Diabetes: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.
Thaxton town is served by 2 churches — about one congregation for every 2,707 residents.
Churches near Thaxton United Methodist Church
- Thaxton Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hayseed Cowboy Church — 1.3 mi away
- Mount Peniel Church — 2 mi away
- Crossroads Church — 2.3 mi away
- Bellvue Church — 2.7 mi away
- Bluff Springs Church — 2.8 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
- Sand Spring Church — 3 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
- Hurricane Church — 3.2 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
- Turnpike Church — 3.3 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
- Ridge Chapel — 3.9 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Toccopola United Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away in Toccopola, MS
- Ecru United Methodist Church — 9.3 mi away in Ecru, MS
- McDonald United Methodist Church — 10.4 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
- First United Methodist Church — 11 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
- Algoma United Methodist Church — 12.2 mi away in Algoma, MS
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