Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant 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 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: 40.5%
• Social Isolation: 31.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
• Depression: 24.1%
• Poverty Rate: 17.7% (13.2–22.2%)
• Food Insecurity: 16.1%
• Diabetes: 14.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Oland Church — 4 mi away
• Otterbem Church — 4.4 mi away
• Cheville Chapel — 6.3 mi away in Lamoni, IA
• Eagleville Church of Christ — 6.5 mi away in Eagleville, MO
• First Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away in Lamoni, IA
• First Family Church Lamoni — 6.7 mi away in Lamoni, IA
• First Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away in Lamoni, IA
• Lamoni Community of Christ — 6.9 mi away in Lamoni, IA
• United Methodist Church — 7 mi away in Lamoni, IA
• Eagleville First Christian Church — 7.7 mi away in Eagleville, MO