Mount Gilead Church

The community around Mount Gilead Church

It takes 5.5 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 adults here carry depression. 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: 32.0%
• Obesity: 38.7%
• Depression: 25.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
• Food Insecurity: 15.1%
• Diabetes: 13.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (7.4–18.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Gilead Church

• Church of Jesus Christ — 2.6 mi away in Perryville, MO
• Pine Hill Church — 4 mi away
• Twin Oak Church — 4.1 mi away
• Meadow Heights Church — 4.4 mi away
• Calvary Church — 4.4 mi away
• Spring Valley Church — 4.4 mi away
• Crossroads Church (historical) — 5.3 mi away
• Whitewater Church — 5.4 mi away in Perryville, MO
• Mine La Motte Church — 5.4 mi away
• Bethel Methodist Church (historical) — 5.8 mi away