Mount Temple Church

The community around Mount Temple Church

It takes 3.6 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 the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 47.0%
• Poverty Rate: 42.0% (30.3–53.7%)
• Social Isolation: 41.6%
• Food Insecurity: 39.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 29.0%
• Diabetes: 23.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.0% (10.9–23.1%)
• Unemployment: 11.2% (4.0–19.3%)

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

Churches near Mount Temple Church

• Gaines Chapel — 1.2 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses — 1.4 mi away
• Rose Hill Church — 1.4 mi away
• Graves Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Calvary Church — 2 mi away
• ATOC AME Church — 2.5 mi away
• Cathedral of Faith Church — 2.7 mi away
• Presbyterian Church of Dawson — 2.8 mi away
• Dawson Church of Christ — 2.8 mi away
• First Shiloh Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away