Pilgrim Rest Church

The community around Pilgrim Rest Church

It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 53.2%
• Food Insecurity: 42.2%
• Social Isolation: 40.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 30.2%
• Diabetes: 23.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.2%
• Unemployment: 15.8% (7.5–24.0%)
• Poverty Rate: 22.4% (13.4–31.3%)
• Transportation Barriers: 21.9%
• Child Poverty: 29.8% (15.2–44.4%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (7.8–20.2%)

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

Churches near Pilgrim Rest Church

• Macedonia Church — 2.1 mi away
• Bread of Life Restoration Ministries — 2.6 mi away in Isola, MS
• Pleasant Green Church — 3 mi away
• Mount Everet Church — 3.2 mi away
• Bellewood Church — 3.2 mi away
• Shiloh-Deovolente Church — 3.3 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.4 mi away
• New Beginnings Church of God — 3.8 mi away
• Mount Airy Church — 4.2 mi away in Inverness, MS
• Zion Traveler Church — 4.3 mi away