What denomination is First United Methodist Church?

First United Methodist Church in Yazoo City, MS is a Methodist church. It is one of 2 Methodist congregations in Yazoo City.

First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Yazoo City, MS 39194. It is one of 90 churches in Yazoo City, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.

Yazoo City, MS, 39194

Shares a ministry location with First Methodist of Yazoo City.

First United Methodist Church 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 First United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

Child Poverty: 80.5%
Obesity: 58.0%
Food Insecurity: 53.7%
Poverty Rate: 50.5%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.0%
Social Isolation: 42.1%
Housing Insecurity: 38.3%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.9%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.2%
Transportation Barriers: 28.7%
Diabetes: 26.0%
Unemployment: 17.2% (6.9–27.8%)
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.3%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (8.6–21.5%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Yazoo City city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 650 residents.

Churches near First United Methodist Church

First Methodist of Yazoo City — 0 mi away
Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0 mi away
First Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
The Manna House Yazoo City — 0.1 mi away
Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
St. Stephens UMC Yazoo City — 0.2 mi away
West Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
Inspired Heights Ministries — 0.4 mi away
Tulane Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away

More Methodist churches nearby

Thornton Church — 17.2 mi away in Tchula, MS
Ebenezer Methodist Church — 20.8 mi away in Lexington, MS
Flora United Methodist Church — 21.9 mi away in Flora, MS
Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church — 24.6 mi away in Andalusia, AL

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