Persons Chapel

The community around Persons Chapel

It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third 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.

• Social Isolation: 33.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
• Child Poverty: 27.0% (7.4–46.6%)
• Depression: 24.0%
• Food Insecurity: 19.3%
• Poverty Rate: 16.2% (7.5–25.0%)
• Diabetes: 14.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Persons Chapel

• Cypress Grove Church — 1.8 mi away
• Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Liberty Church — 3 mi away in Gould, AR
• Trinity Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Rose Hill Church — 3.1 mi away
• Crigler Missionary Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 4.3 mi away in Gould, AR
• Saint Harmony Church — 4.4 mi away in Dumas, AR
• Rankin Chapel Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Gould, AR