Pleasant Grove Church

The community around Pleasant Grove Church

It takes 4.1 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 nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, 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.

• Social Isolation: 34.3%
• Poverty Rate: 25.8% (14.4–37.2%)
• Diabetes: 15.5%
• Obesity: 39.6%
• Child Poverty: 29.4% (11.4–48.0%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
• Food Insecurity: 19.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.4% (4.8–19.9%)

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

Churches near Pleasant Grove Church

• Mt Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Bailey, MS
• Mount Pleasant Church — 1.2 mi away in Meridian, MS
• Bethel Church — 1.9 mi away
• Frazier Grove Church — 2.1 mi away
• Union Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Arkadelphia Church — 3.4 mi away
• Persimmon Ridge Church — 3.8 mi away in De Kalb, MS
• Liberty Church — 4 mi away in De Kalb, MS
• Corinth Church — 4.4 mi away in De Kalb, MS
• Little Zion Church — 4.6 mi away in Collinsville, MS