Oak Grove Church

The community around Oak Grove Church

It takes 4.8 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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.

• Obesity: 42.7%
• Child Poverty: 36.9% (18.4–55.4%)
• Social Isolation: 35.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
• Poverty Rate: 23.7% (12.8–34.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (10.8–23.9%)
• Diabetes: 16.3%
• Unemployment: 10.8% (2.3–19.4%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%

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

Churches near Oak Grove Church

• New Hope Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Monticello, MS
• Antioch Church — 2.4 mi away in Monticello, MS
• Forest Grove Church — 3 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 3.1 mi away in Monticello, MS
• Bethany Church — 3.4 mi away
• Topeka Baptist Church — 4 mi away
• Ballards Chapel — 4.1 mi away
• Calvary United Pentecostal — 4.2 mi away
• Carmel Church — 4.4 mi away in Monticello, MS
• East Lincoln Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Brookhaven, MS