Mount Elba Church

The community around Mount Elba Church

It takes 7.7 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 have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 41.5%
• Social Isolation: 33.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
• Depression: 24.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
• Food Insecurity: 15.8%
• Diabetes: 14.0%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Elba Church

• Hebron Church — 1 mi away
• Saint Francis Church — 1.5 mi away in New Edinburg, AR
• Piney Grove Church — 2.3 mi away in New Edinburg, AR
• Greenland Church — 5 mi away in New Edinburg, AR
• Bethel Church — 5.5 mi away in New Edinburg, AR
• Sanctified Church — 5.6 mi away in New Edinburg, AR
• Smith Church — 5.6 mi away
• Chapel Hill Church — 5.7 mi away in New Edinburg, AR
• First Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 5.8 mi away in Rison, AR