Goshen Church

The community around Goshen Church

It takes 6.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Food Insecurity: 25.5%
• Diabetes: 19.7%
• Obesity: 40.3%
• Social Isolation: 34.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
• Poverty Rate: 22.9% (11.6–34.3%)
• Unemployment: 11.9% (0.1–25.0%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.4% (7.0–19.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Goshen Church

• Smiths Chapel — 1.2 mi away in Water Valley, MS
• Green Goshen Church — 1.9 mi away in Water Valley, MS
• Zion Grove Church — 2.5 mi away
• Gatewood Church — 2.9 mi away
• Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Water Valley, MS
• Silver Knoll Church — 3.7 mi away
• Philadelphia Church — 4.7 mi away in Oakland, MS
• Mount Gilead Church — 5.3 mi away in Water Valley, MS
• Hopewell Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
• Union Hill Church — 5.7 mi away in Water Valley, MS