Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live 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.

• Child Poverty: 68.6%
• Obesity: 49.8%
• Poverty Rate: 47.3%
• Food Insecurity: 43.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 29.1%
• Diabetes: 26.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.4%
• Social Isolation: 38.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 22.0%
• Unemployment: 9.0% (1.8–16.4%)
• Depression: 26.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%

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

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Mt Pleasant Baptist Church — 0 mi away
• Forest Grove Church — 2 mi away in Emerson, AR
• Mount Hebron Church — 2.2 mi away
• Haynesville United Pentecostal Church — 2.4 mi away
• New Hope Number 1 Church — 3.5 mi away in Emerson, AR
• Westside Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Piney Grove Church — 3.7 mi away in Emerson, AR
• First Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Woodland Church of Christ in Haynesville, Louisiana — 3.7 mi away
• First Assembly of God — 3.8 mi away