Running Water Creek Church

The community around Running Water Creek Church

It takes 7.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 46.2%
• Food Insecurity: 35.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 25.8%
• Diabetes: 21.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.2%
• Social Isolation: 39.7%
• Child Poverty: 35.9% (21.9–50.0%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.5%
• Poverty Rate: 24.4% (15.7–33.1%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.6% (13.0–26.2%)
• Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
• Unemployment: 7.0% (0.6–13.5%)

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

Churches near Running Water Creek Church

• Upper Running Water Church — 2.9 mi away
• The Linked Church — 3.4 mi away in Shuqualak, MS
• Calvary Church — 3.5 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 3.7 mi away
• New Chapel Church — 4 mi away
• Mount Sinai Church — 4 mi away in Macon, MS
• Calvary M.B. Church - Shuqualak, MS — 4.1 mi away in Shuqualak, MS
• New Zion Church — 4.2 mi away in Macon, MS
• Concord Church — 4.5 mi away in Macon, MS
• Oak Grove Church — 5 mi away in Macon, MS