Oak Grove Church

The community around Oak Grove 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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: 40.3%
• Social Isolation: 33.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
• Diabetes: 16.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
• Poverty Rate: 19.6% (9.5–29.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 19.4%
• Unemployment: 7.6% (2.2–13.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Oak Grove Church

• New Salem Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Shady Grove Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away in Ethel, MS
• Providence Methodist Church — 4 mi away in Vaiden, MS
• Sand Hill Baptist Church — 4 mi away
• Oak Ridge Primitive Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in French Camp, MS
• Friendship Church — 4.5 mi away in Kilmichael, MS
• Pierce Chapel Methodist Church — 4.9 mi away in Kosciusko, MS
• Hebron Church — 5.2 mi away in Vaiden, MS
• Pilgrims Rest Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Ethel, MS
• Bethel Methodist Church — 5.8 mi away in Kosciusko, MS