Mount Salem Church

The community around Mount Salem Church

It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 36.1%
• Obesity: 37.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
• Food Insecurity: 16.7%
• Diabetes: 13.9%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Salem Church

• New Zion Church — 1.4 mi away
• New Covenant Church — 2.4 mi away
• Harrisville Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Rexford Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Florence, MS
• Mount Olive Church — 3.3 mi away
• Holly Grove Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Braxton Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away in Braxton, MS
• Enoch Grove Church — 6 mi away in Florence, MS
• Taylor Hill Church — 6.1 mi away
• Star Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away in Star, MS