Mount Stephens Baptist Church

The community around Mount Stephens Baptist Church

It takes 5.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 49.7% (34.5–66.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
• Food Insecurity: 31.5%
• Diabetes: 21.7%
• Obesity: 43.5%
• Social Isolation: 38.7%
• Poverty Rate: 27.0% (18.9–35.1%)
• Housing Insecurity: 23.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Stephens Baptist Church

• New Haven Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Oneida, TN
• Second Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• White Plains Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• White Plains Methodist Church — 3 mi away
• Pierce Chapel — 3.8 mi away
• Springfield Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Sparta, GA
• Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Sparta, GA
• Centennial Christian Church — 5 mi away
• Rock Hill Baptist Church — 5 mi away
• County Line Church — 5.3 mi away in Greensboro, GA