Mt Olive M B Church

The community around Mt Olive M B Church

It takes 3.4 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up 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.

• Food Insecurity: 28.3%
• Obesity: 42.6%
• Child Poverty: 39.2% (20.7–57.7%)
• Social Isolation: 37.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
• Poverty Rate: 24.8% (13.4–36.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 20.5%
• Diabetes: 17.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.9% (8.7–21.0%)
• Transportation Barriers: 14.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%

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

Churches near Mt Olive M B Church

• Salem Church — 0.6 mi away in Lake, MS
• Sharon Church — 1.5 mi away in Lake, MS
• Goodhope Church — 2.1 mi away in Lake, MS
• Mount Calvary Church — 2.5 mi away
• Liberty Church — 3.7 mi away
• Ephesus Church — 3.9 mi away
• Sand Ridge Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Lake, MS
• Sharon Church — 4 mi away in Lake, MS
• Pleasant Ridge Church — 4.1 mi away
• Hazel Church — 4.2 mi away in Lake, MS