Guiding Star Church

The community around Guiding Star Church

It takes 8.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than 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: 50.2%
• Food Insecurity: 38.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 27.0%
• Diabetes: 23.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.1%
• Social Isolation: 38.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.2%
• Child Poverty: 33.2% (18.7–48.1%)
• Poverty Rate: 27.6% (17.5–37.6%)
• Transportation Barriers: 19.6%
• Unemployment: 9.0% (2.5–15.4%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (7.9–20.5%)

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

Churches near Guiding Star Church

• Holly Grove Church — 1.5 mi away in Rolling Fork, MS
• Magnolia Church — 2.9 mi away in Rolling Fork, MS
• New Hope Church — 2.9 mi away in Rolling Fork, MS
• Saint Michaels Church — 3.7 mi away in Rolling Fork, MS
• Rock of Mount Zion Church — 4.5 mi away in Rolling Fork, MS
• Mount Olive Church — 4.7 mi away in Rolling Fork, MS
• Egremont Chapel — 5.8 mi away in Rolling Fork, MS
• New Bethlehem Church — 6.3 mi away in Rolling Fork, MS
• Woodland Church — 7.1 mi away in Rolling Fork, MS
• Saint Peters Church — 7.1 mi away in Rolling Fork, MS