Hester Chapel

The community around Hester Chapel

It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Child Poverty: 44.0% (25.4–62.7%)
• Obesity: 42.7%
• Social Isolation: 36.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
• Poverty Rate: 27.7% (19.1–36.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 24.3%
• Diabetes: 17.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (8.2–16.7%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%

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

Churches near Hester Chapel

• Smith Chapel — 0.7 mi away
• Greater Love Ministries — 0.7 mi away in Union, MS
• Commission Church — 1.4 mi away in Union, MS
• Herbert Church — 1.4 mi away in Union, MS
• Friendship Church — 1.6 mi away in Union, MS
• Harmony Church — 2.2 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Antioch Church — 2.3 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Church — 2.6 mi away
• Pentecostals Of House — 2.8 mi away in Union, MS
• Mount Carmel Church — 2.9 mi away