Mount Vernon United Methodist Church
Mount Vernon United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 1501 Jensen Drive, Houston, TX, 77020-2123 in Houston, TX 77020. It is one of 3,338 churches in Houston, and one of 80 Methodist congregations in the city.
Mount Vernon United Methodist Church's history dates back to 1865, two years before Methodism spread in Texas.
Serving since 1950
1501 Jensen Drive, Houston, TX, 77020-2123, Houston, TX, 77020Phone: (713) 229-0073 · Website: http://mtvernonhou.com/
Mount Vernon United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,558 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 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.
Ministries at Mount Vernon United Methodist Church
- Evangelism Ministry
- Bible Study
- Caring Ministry
- Communication Ministry
- Hospitality & Greeters
- Mt. Vernon Praise Dance Ministry
- Prayer Ministry
- Sunday School
- Women of Faith (UMW)
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Latest from Mt Vernon UMC Houston's YouTube channel: Aug 2, 2026 - 10am Worship Service (all videos).
The community around Mount Vernon United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,200 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: 91.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.3%
- Poverty Rate: 30.6% (20.6–43.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.3% (16.7–33.1%)
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Unemployment: 10.5% (4.3–18.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Vernon United Methodist Church
- Olivet Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Northside Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Lyons Unity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Vine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Pleasant Green Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Island of Hope Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sloan Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- East Orange African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- El Mesias Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Grace Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away