Lorena Church

The community around Lorena 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: 26.5%
• Diabetes: 18.7%
• Obesity: 44.6%
• Social Isolation: 36.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4% (9.5–21.2%)
• Unemployment: 9.3% (2.1–16.6%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
• Child Poverty: 25.1% (9.8–40.4%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.7% (13.9–29.5%)
• Housing Insecurity: 18.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%

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

Churches near Lorena Church

• Union Grove Church — 1.6 mi away
• Gasque Chapel — 1.6 mi away
• Luther Chapel — 2.9 mi away
• Bethel Church — 3 mi away
• Mount Carmel Church — 3 mi away
• Good Hope Church — 3.2 mi away
• Homewood Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Goodwater Church — 3.4 mi away
• New Chapel United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away in Pulaski, MS
• Christian Chapel — 5.1 mi away in Raleigh, MS