Mount Elam Church

The community around Mount Elam Church

It takes 7.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

• Child Poverty: 52.6% (39.3–67.7%)
• Obesity: 50.9%
• Food Insecurity: 35.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
• Diabetes: 24.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.8%
• Social Isolation: 37.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
• Poverty Rate: 26.5% (17.7–35.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 24.4%
• Transportation Barriers: 16.8%

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

Churches near Mount Elam Church

• Sellers Memorial Church — 1.4 mi away
• Sanctified Church — 1.5 mi away
• New Mount Lily Church — 1.6 mi away
• Saint Paul Church — 1.9 mi away
• Mt. Gillard Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Mount Lily Church — 2.5 mi away
• Good Hope Church — 2.6 mi away
• Mount Teman Church — 2.5 mi away in Tyler, AL
• Mount Teman Church — 2.7 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 4.1 mi away