New Morning Star Church

The community around New Morning Star Church

It takes 6.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

• Child Poverty: 59.4%
• Obesity: 50.3%
• Poverty Rate: 45.4%
• Food Insecurity: 44.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 32.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.8%
• Diabetes: 24.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 23.5%
• Unemployment: 17.7% (10.4–25.0%)
• Social Isolation: 39.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (8.2–16.2%)

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

Churches near New Morning Star Church

• Silver Cloud Church — 1.4 mi away
• Fredonia Church — 2.2 mi away in Lula, MS
• Saint Marks Church — 3.1 mi away
• Pilgrim Rest Church — 4.1 mi away in Lula, MS
• Saint Luke Church — 4.6 mi away in Helena-West Helena, AR
• Robinson Chapel — 4.7 mi away in Lula, MS
• Armistead Church — 5 mi away in Lula, MS
• Friars Point United Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away in Friars Point, MS
• Robinson Chapel — 5.1 mi away in Lula, MS
• Point Pleasant Church — 5.2 mi away in Helena-West Helena, AR