Damascus Church

Damascus Church is a church in Gloster, MS 39638. It is one of 30 churches in Gloster.

Gloster, MS, 39638

Website: http://www.damascusbc.org/

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The community around Damascus 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third 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.

  • Obesity: 47.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 31.0% (20.8–41.3%)
  • Food Insecurity: 29.5%
  • Diabetes: 22.0%
  • Child Poverty: 36.2% (18.1–54.4%)
  • Social Isolation: 35.5%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
  • Unemployment: 8.6% (0.6–16.7%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (5.2–19.4%)

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

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