Damascus Church
Damascus Church is a church in MS 38730.
MS, 38730Find Damascus Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Damascus Church
It takes 4.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.
- Food Insecurity: 26.4%
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Child Poverty: 24.9% (13.7–36.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.0% (13.6–28.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (6.9–15.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Damascus Church
- Skene Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Boyle, MS
- Mount Pilgrim Church — 2 mi away
- Chesterfield Church — 2.1 mi away
- Gospel Temple — 2.5 mi away
- New Saint James Church — 3.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Church — 3.5 mi away
- El Bethel Church — 3.5 mi away
- Cleveland First Church of the Nazarene — 3.8 mi away in Cleveland, MS
- Mount Olive Church — 4 mi away
- Poplar Grove Church — 4.1 mi away