Pleasant Grove Church

The community around Pleasant Grove Church

It takes 3.3 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 41.3%
• Social Isolation: 37.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
• Food Insecurity: 24.7%
• Diabetes: 18.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
• Poverty Rate: 18.9% (11.2–26.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 18.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Pleasant Grove Church

• New Hope Church — 1.9 mi away
• Hebron Chapel — 3.2 mi away
• Mount Newell Missionary Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Antioch Church — 3.9 mi away
• Victoria Heights Baptist Church — 4 mi away
• Strawberry Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
• Newell Chapel CME Church — 4.6 mi away in Red Banks, MS
• Newest Church — 4.6 mi away
• Saint Nazareth Church — 5.4 mi away
• Adolphus Chapel CME Church — 5.7 mi away