Lake Pleasant Church

The community around Lake Pleasant Church

It takes 3.7 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 43.4%
• Social Isolation: 39.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
• Food Insecurity: 23.4%
• Diabetes: 16.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.0% (7.4–24.7%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
• Child Poverty: 27.5% (12.7–42.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
• Poverty Rate: 17.9% (7.5–28.2%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%
• Unemployment: 6.1% (0.5–12.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Lake Pleasant Church

• New Hope Church — 0.6 mi away
• Cotton Assembly — 3 mi away in Pelham, GA
• Pebble City Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• White Rock Church — 4 mi away in Meigs, GA
• Pleasant View Church — 4.1 mi away
• Arno Church — 4.2 mi away
• Saint Peter Missionary Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Pelham, GA
• Blooming Light Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Pelham, GA
• Friendship Church — 5.1 mi away