Okolona Church

The community around Okolona Church

It takes 5.4 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 more than 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: 18.4%
• Obesity: 43.8%
• Social Isolation: 37.4%
• Child Poverty: 31.5% (17.4–45.5%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
• Food Insecurity: 23.8%
• Unemployment: 8.1% (1.0–15.9%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
• Depression: 23.3%
• Poverty Rate: 18.9% (9.0–28.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Okolona Church

• Calvary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Springfield Church — 1.7 mi away in Thomasville, AL
• Evans Chapel United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away in Thomasville, AL
• Spencer Chapel Church — 2.1 mi away
• Bassetts Creek Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Liley Church — 2.1 mi away
• Bassett Creek Church — 2.1 mi away
• Liberty Church — 2.9 mi away in Thomasville, AL
• Goodhope Church — 3.2 mi away
• First Century Church — 3.2 mi away