Saint John Church

The community around Saint John Church

It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Obesity: 40.4%
• Social Isolation: 36.4%
• Food Insecurity: 21.8%
• Diabetes: 16.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
• Poverty Rate: 16.3% (6.2–26.4%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
• Unemployment: 6.3% (1.0–12.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint John Church

• Pleasant Grove Church — 0.7 mi away
• Goodhope Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Good Hope Church — 1.1 mi away
• New Hope Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Mount Olive, MS
• Hopewell Church — 2.2 mi away in Mount Olive, MS
• Siloam Church — 2.8 mi away
• Zionell Church — 3.3 mi away in Mount Olive, MS
• Macedonia Church — 3.8 mi away in Mount Olive, MS
• Point Pleasant Church — 3.9 mi away in Mount Olive, MS
• Mount Mariah Church — 4 mi away in Mount Olive, MS