Pleasant Joy Church

The community around Pleasant Joy Church

It takes 3.0 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 about 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 71.2%
• Obesity: 52.3%
• Food Insecurity: 41.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.2%
• Poverty Rate: 39.2% (26.4–52.0%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 30.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.3%
• Diabetes: 23.8%
• Unemployment: 14.6% (1.1–28.1%)
• Social Isolation: 39.4%
• Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%

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

Churches near Pleasant Joy Church

• Pleasant Joy Church — 1.2 mi away in Helena, AR
• Saint Marys Church — 1.5 mi away
• Saint Matthews Church — 2.4 mi away
• Saint Pauls Church — 2.5 mi away in West Helena, AR
• Saint Marys Church — 2.6 mi away
• King Solomon M.B. Church — 2.7 mi away in Helena, AR
• United Pentecostal Church — 2.8 mi away in West Helena, AR
• Upper Room Pentecostal Church — 2.8 mi away in West Helena, AR
• Power House Church of God In Christ — 2.9 mi away in West Helena, AR
• First Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in West Helena, AR