Mount Vernal Church

The community around Mount Vernal Church

It takes 3.5 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 here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Depression: 31.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Unemployment: 8.4% (2.6–14.1%)
• Obesity: 39.8%
• Poverty Rate: 16.3% (10.4–22.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Vernal Church

• Friendship Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Mount Pisgah Church — 2.3 mi away
• Daysville Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Clymersville Church — 2.9 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 3 mi away
• Westel Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Brickyard Springs Community Worship Center — 3.1 mi away
• Speight Chapel AME Zion Church — 3.1 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Lenoir Avenue — 3.1 mi away
• First Christian Church — 3.2 mi away