Southern Methodist Church of Waynesboro
Southern Methodist Church of Waynesboro is a church in Waynesboro, MS 39367. It is one of 70 churches in Waynesboro.
Waynesboro, MS, 39367Southern Methodist Church of Waynesboro is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 620 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Mississippi — 25,985 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 Southern Methodist Church of Waynesboro
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: 48.8%
- Child Poverty: 44.3% (26.6–62.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 37.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 34.3% (22.1–46.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.2%
- Poverty Rate: 32.7% (20.5–44.9%)
- 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: 19.4%
- Unemployment: 10.6% (0.1–21.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Waynesboro city is served by 11 churches — about one congregation for every 422 residents.
Churches near Southern Methodist Church of Waynesboro
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. Bernadette Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Waynesboro Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away
- Abundant Life Church — 1 mi away
- Sweet Hope Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Bernadette Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Waynesboro First United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Winchester United Methodist Church — 5.7 mi away
- Clara United Methodist Church — 8.2 mi away
- Kings Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 10.4 mi away in Millry, AL
- Buckatunna United Methodist Church — 12.3 mi away in Buckatunna, MS
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