Goshen Church

The community around Goshen Church

It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Child Poverty: 49.3% (37.1–61.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 31.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.2%
• Obesity: 44.4%
• Social Isolation: 37.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
• Poverty Rate: 29.4% (21.2–37.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 23.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.6% (13.3–25.9%)
• Diabetes: 17.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.2%
• Unemployment: 8.5% (3.0–14.0%)
• Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Goshen Church

• Mary Bethel Church — 1 mi away
• Trinity Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Carthage, MS
• First Baptist Carthage — 2.6 mi away in Carthage, MS
• MtZion CI Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Carthage, MS
• Saint Anne Catholic Church — 2.8 mi away in Carthage, MS
• Carthage Presbyterian Church — 2.8 mi away in Carthage, MS
• Zion Hill Church — 2.9 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 2.9 mi away in Carthage, MS
• Carthage United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in Carthage, MS
• First Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Carthage, MS