El Mesias United Methodist Church
El Mesias United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Laredo, TX 78040. It is one of 71 churches in Laredo.
Laredo, TX, 78040Shares a ministry location with First United Methodist Church.
El Mesias United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,580 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 25,989 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 El Mesias United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,300 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.
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 44.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 38.3%
- Diabetes: 21.7%
- Poverty Rate: 29.7% (17.4–41.9%)
- Child Poverty: 24.6% (9.3–40.5%)
- Unemployment: 6.9% (1.9–11.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Laredo city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 7,128 residents.
Churches near El Mesias United Methodist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Christ The King Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- CK Ministries International — 0.1 mi away
- La Trinidad United Methodist — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Shalom — 0.7 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Nueva Vida en Jesus — 0.7 mi away
- Heights Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. Joseph Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Faith Lutheran Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- La Trinidad United Methodist — 0.5 mi away