Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 3.2 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 45.1%
• Social Isolation: 35.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
• Food Insecurity: 24.8%
• Diabetes: 17.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4% (9.2–21.7%)
• Unemployment: 11.2% (2.9–20.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
• Poverty Rate: 18.0% (9.1–26.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Mound Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Mount Able Church — 2.8 mi away
• Keystone Ministries — 3.3 mi away in Vicksburg, MS
• Holly Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Vicksburg, MS
• Crossway Church — 3.5 mi away in Vicksburg, MS
• Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church — 3.6 mi away in Vicksburg, MS
• Travelers Rest Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Vicksburg, MS
• Mount Pilgrim Church — 3.6 mi away in Vicksburg, MS
• Rock of Ages Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Vicksburg, MS
• Bright Morning Star Church — 3.7 mi away in Vicksburg, MS