Mount Pisgah Church

The community around Mount Pisgah 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 of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance. 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: 40.1%
• Social Isolation: 35.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (8.0–24.3%)
• Unemployment: 8.3% (1.9–14.8%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
• Child Poverty: 25.2% (10.3–40.8%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
• Food Insecurity: 19.3%
• Poverty Rate: 18.8% (10.6–26.9%)
• Diabetes: 14.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Pisgah Church

• Mohoba Church — 2.2 mi away
• Covenant Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Church of Jesus Christ — 4 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Rounsaville Church — 4.2 mi away
• Midway Church — 5.9 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Apostolic Tabernacle — 6.1 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away
• Pilgrims Rest Church — 6.4 mi away
• Leakesville Methodist Church — 6.4 mi away
• Leakesville Presbyterian Church — 6.4 mi away