First United Pentecostal Church
First United Pentecostal Church is a Pentecostal church in Tupelo, MS 38804. It is one of 148 churches in Tupelo, and one of 2 Pentecostal congregations in the city.
Tupelo, MS, 38804First United Pentecostal Church is part of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family of churches in The American Church Story. 327 congregations of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family gather across Mississippi — 17,437 across the United States on The Church Map.
Pentecostalism began in a Los Angeles livery stable with Black and white believers worshiping together while segregation was the law, and it has become the fastest-growing Christian movement in history. Its recovery of the Spirit's gifts, and the songs it has written, have crossed into nearly every other tradition on this map.
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The community around First United Pentecostal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 48.4% (32.7–64.4%)
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Poverty Rate: 24.5% (16.9–32.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.6%
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Obesity: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (7.8–20.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Tupelo city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 592 residents.
Churches near First United Pentecostal Church
- Inspirational Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Sycamore Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gloster Street Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Celebration Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church at Trace Crossing - Student Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Seekers Church — 0.4 mi away
- All Saints Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Oakridge Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Willis Heights Primitive Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Pentecostal churches nearby
- Emmanuel Church of God in Christ — 1 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church — 1.9 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 2.3 mi away
- Apostolic Life Church — 3.4 mi away
- Faith, Hope and Charity Pentecostal Church — 4.2 mi away in Plantersville, MS
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