Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive Church

It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. 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.

• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%
• Food Insecurity: 15.7%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• Mount Hope Church — 1.5 mi away
• Eureka Church — 1.8 mi away in Olney, IL
• Centenary Church — 2 mi away in Sumner, IL
• Gilead Church — 2.3 mi away in Sumner, IL
• Otterbein Church — 2.4 mi away
• Mount Pleasant Church — 2.9 mi away in Olney, IL
• Beulah Church — 3.7 mi away in Sumner, IL
• Antioch Church — 4.2 mi away
• Walnut Grove Church — 4.9 mi away
• Prairieton Church — 5.2 mi away in Sumner, IL