Gum Grove Church

The community around Gum Grove Church

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Child Poverty: 30.3% (18.3–43.3%)
• Poverty Rate: 22.6% (13.0–32.2%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (9.4–28.4%)
• Diabetes: 15.5%
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
• Food Insecurity: 19.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Gum Grove Church

• Mount Zion Church — 2 mi away in Bogue Chitto, MS
• Mount Zion Church — 3.4 mi away
• Arlington Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Bogue Chitto, MS
• Mt Zion Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Bogue Chitto, MS
• Johnson Grove Church — 3.8 mi away in Bogue Chitto, MS
• Calvary Church — 3.8 mi away in Bogue Chitto, MS
• Solid Rock Pentecostal Church — 4.2 mi away
• Bethel Church — 4.4 mi away in Bogue Chitto, MS
• Bethel United Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away