New Jerusalem MB Church

The community around New Jerusalem MB Church

It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Unemployment: 14.7% (5.7–23.7%)
• Obesity: 42.2%
• Social Isolation: 36.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
• Child Poverty: 30.1% (13.4–46.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.7%
• Diabetes: 15.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
• Poverty Rate: 20.8% (12.3–29.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (4.6–18.6%)

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

Churches near New Jerusalem MB Church

• Pilgrim Rest Church — 1 mi away
• Pleasant Green Church — 2 mi away
• Mount Zion Center Church — 2.1 mi away
• New Jerusalem MB Church — 2.1 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 2.2 mi away
• Delta Revival Center — 2.4 mi away
• Union Star Church — 2.4 mi away
• Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 2.4 mi away
• Union Grove Missionary Baptist — 2.5 mi away
• Church of Christ — 2.6 mi away