Mount Gilead Church

The community around Mount Gilead Church

It takes 4.0 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 34.3%
• Obesity: 39.8%
• Child Poverty: 22.5% (7.3–37.6%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.2%
• Food Insecurity: 16.0%
• Unemployment: 6.3% (3.0–9.9%)

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

Churches near Mount Gilead Church

• Mount Nebo Church — 2.5 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 3.6 mi away
• Faith Chapel — 3.6 mi away
• The Bridge — 3.7 mi away
• Lost and Found — 3.8 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 3.9 mi away
• Wilkerson Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.9 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 4 mi away
• Saint Lawrence Catholic Church — 4 mi away