Mount Joy Church

The community around Mount Joy Church

It takes 5.8 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: 40.6%
• Social Isolation: 33.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
• Diabetes: 16.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
• Depression: 25.5%
• Food Insecurity: 19.5%
• Poverty Rate: 18.6% (12.3–24.9%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Joy Church

• Boswell Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Melbourne, AR
• Mt. Olive Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 3.1 mi away in Melbourne, AR
• Church of Christ — 5.6 mi away in Melbourne, AR
• River Rock Church — 6.5 mi away
• Spring Creek Methodist Church — 6.8 mi away
• Sylamore Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away in Melbourne, AR
• Bethel Springs Church — 8 mi away
• Pleasant Valley Church — 8 mi away
• Flat Rock Church — 8.1 mi away
• Pleasant Valley Church — 8.3 mi away