Mount Ararat Church

The community around Mount Ararat Church

It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up 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.

• Diabetes: 18.3%
• Social Isolation: 38.9%
• Child Poverty: 32.6% (15.2–50.0%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
• Food Insecurity: 24.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.8% (10.6–21.0%)
• Obesity: 39.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
• Poverty Rate: 17.0% (9.7–24.3%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
• Unemployment: 6.4% (1.9–11.0%)

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

Churches near Mount Ararat Church

• New Zion Baptist Church — 0 mi away
• Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• New Prospect AME Church — 2.4 mi away
• Abundant Life Ministries — 2.5 mi away
• First Assembly of God Church — 2.5 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 2.8 mi away
• Westview United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Oak Grove A.M.E. Church — 3.1 mi away
• Mountain Grove Freewill Baptist — 3.6 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away