New Zion Church

The community around New Zion Church

It takes 5.3 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 nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 41.5%
• Social Isolation: 35.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
• Food Insecurity: 21.8%
• Diabetes: 17.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
• Child Poverty: 25.2% (11.6–38.9%)
• Poverty Rate: 17.2% (10.5–23.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.8–16.5%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%
• Unemployment: 7.7% (2.5–13.4%)

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

Churches near New Zion Church

• South Union Church — 2.4 mi away
• Old Lebanon Church — 2.7 mi away
• Chester Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Penderville Church — 3.8 mi away
• Weir Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Weir, MS
• Greater Hope Pentecostal Church; Acts 2:38 Organization — 4 mi away in Weir, MS
• Millsprings Church — 4 mi away
• Pisgah Church — 4.1 mi away
• Salem Church — 4.2 mi away
• Mount Moriah Church — 4.7 mi away