First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 100 Ron Lawson Dr in Waynesboro, MS 39367-2570. It is one of 70 churches in Waynesboro.

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100 Ron Lawson Dr, Waynesboro, MS, 39367-2570

Phone: +16017354334 · Website: http://www.umc.org

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 First United Methodist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 48.7%
  • Child Poverty: 43.9% (26.1–61.6%)
  • Food Insecurity: 37.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.1%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 33.7% (21.7–45.8%)
  • Poverty Rate: 32.5% (20.3–44.7%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
  • Diabetes: 21.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.8%
  • Social Isolation: 39.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
  • Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
  • Unemployment: 10.8% (0.3–21.7%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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