Morning Star Church

The community around Morning Star Church

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 52.6%
• Child Poverty: 48.9%
• Food Insecurity: 43.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.4%
• Poverty Rate: 37.1% (26.8–47.5%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 30.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.9%
• Unemployment: 25.0% (9.0–41.0%)
• Diabetes: 24.7%
• Social Isolation: 39.0%
• Transportation Barriers: 21.8%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (3.7–20.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

Helena-West Helena city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 67 residents.

Churches near Morning Star Church

• Silver Cloud Church — 0.3 mi away
• Beautiful Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Helena, AR
• New Light Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Saint Mary Catholic Church — 1.3 mi away in Helena, AR
• Centennial Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Carter Chapel — 1.5 mi away
• Abundant Life Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Helena, AR
• First Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
• St. John's Episcopal Church — 1.8 mi away