Episcopal Church of the Ascension
Episcopal Church of the Ascension is a Episcopal church at 3600 Arlington Loop in Hattiesburg, MS 39402. It is one of 186 churches in Hattiesburg, and one of 2 Episcopal congregations in the city.
3600 Arlington Loop, Hattiesburg, MS, 39402Phone: (601) 264-6773 · Website: http://ascension.ms/
Shares a ministry location with Canterbury: The Episcopal Church at USM.
Episcopal Church of the Ascension is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 72 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Mississippi — 6,341 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Episcopal Church of the Ascension
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 31.1% (21.3–40.9%)
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Food Insecurity: 23.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (6.8–17.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (3.5–12.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Hattiesburg city is served by 74 churches — about one congregation for every 689 residents.
Churches near Episcopal Church of the Ascension
- Canterbury: The Episcopal Church at USM — 0 mi away
- Ekklesia Hattiesburg — 0.3 mi away
- University Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kensington Woods Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Hattiesburg Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Testament Christian Church of Hattiesburg, MS — 0.6 mi away
- Wesley Foundation — 0.6 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.6 mi away
- Baptist Student Union — 0.7 mi away
- Thirty-Eighth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 2.9 mi away
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