Evening Star Church

The community around Evening Star Church

It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Obesity: 42.8%
• Social Isolation: 35.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
• Food Insecurity: 21.6%
• Diabetes: 16.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (5.5–19.4%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%
• Unemployment: 6.3% (0.3–13.3%)

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

Churches near Evening Star Church

• Saint Paul Church — 2.2 mi away
• Ogden Church — 2.8 mi away
• Bentonia Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Bentonia, MS
• New Pleasant Grove Church — 3.6 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 4.9 mi away
• Mount Oliver Church — 5.1 mi away in Yazoo City, MS
• Smith Chapel — 5.3 mi away in Flora, MS
• Wilson Grove Church — 5.4 mi away in Flora, MS
• Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Flora, MS
• New Concord Church — 5.6 mi away