Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 5.3 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 live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 18.7%
• Obesity: 42.5%
• Social Isolation: 32.8%
• Depression: 31.0%
• Child Poverty: 30.6% (13.7–47.6%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
• Poverty Rate: 21.2% (13.1–29.2%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
• Unemployment: 6.7% (1.9–11.5%)

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

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Hill Grove Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Creston United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Mount Williams Church — 3 mi away
• Ruble Church — 3.3 mi away
• Gilboa Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Spencer, WV
• Alexander Church — 4.1 mi away in Spencer, WV
• Little Creek Church — 4.2 mi away
• Fairview Church — 4.5 mi away in Reedy, WV
• Two Runs Church — 4.6 mi away
• Snyder Chapel United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away