Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 5.3 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 of adults here carry depression. 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: 40.5%
• Social Isolation: 33.0%
• Depression: 24.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
• Food Insecurity: 16.2%
• Diabetes: 14.1%
• Unemployment: 6.6% (2.8–10.4%)

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

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Pleasant Union Church — 1.3 mi away
• Smith Chapel — 2.5 mi away
• New Hope Church — 2.7 mi away
• Concord Church — 4 mi away
• Brush Harbor Church — 4.4 mi away
• Christian Chapel — 4.4 mi away
• St Clement Catholic Church — 4.9 mi away in McLeansboro, IL
• Saint Clements Roman Catholic Church — 4.9 mi away in McLeansboro, IL
• First Baptist Church — 5 mi away in McLeansboro, IL
• Turning Point Church — 5.1 mi away in McLeansboro, IL