Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive Church

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter 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: 34.3% (18.4–50.2%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
• Poverty Rate: 22.3% (15.1–29.5%)
• Obesity: 39.7%
• Social Isolation: 31.0%
• Depression: 26.0%
• Food Insecurity: 16.2%
• Diabetes: 14.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.4% (6.4–18.4%)
• Unemployment: 6.1% (2.5–9.7%)

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

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• Mt Olive Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Bolivar, MO Church of Christ — 2.2 mi away
• Seventh Day Adventist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Crazy For Christ — 2.5 mi away
• First Church of the Nazarene — 2.5 mi away
• Sling N Stones Ministries — 2.8 mi away
• Bolivar United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Open Hearts United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
• The White House — 2.9 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Bolivar — 3 mi away