Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 4.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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.

• Unemployment: 13.6% (6.2–20.9%)
• Obesity: 44.7%
• Social Isolation: 32.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
• Diabetes: 16.0%
• Child Poverty: 27.8% (13.5–42.2%)
• Depression: 25.5%
• Food Insecurity: 17.9%

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

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• Newton County Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
• Trinity United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away
• Covenant Federated Christian — 4.7 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
• Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 5.2 mi away
• Church of Christ — 5.9 mi away in Sheldon, IL
• Sheldon Church of the Nazarene — 6.1 mi away in Sheldon, IL
• Beaver Church — 6.4 mi away
• First Christian Church — 6.8 mi away in Brook, IN
• Brook United Methodist Church — 6.9 mi away in Brook, IN