Mount Galilee Church

The community around Mount Galilee Church

It takes 7.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Food Insecurity: 32.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
• Diabetes: 19.8%
• Obesity: 44.8%
• Child Poverty: 37.7% (23.4–51.9%)
• Social Isolation: 36.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.0%
• Poverty Rate: 27.2% (17.9–36.5%)
• Housing Insecurity: 23.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8% (8.4–21.1%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
• Unemployment: 7.6% (3.0–12.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Galilee Church

• Old Whitestone Church — 2 mi away
• Calvary Church — 3.7 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 4.5 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 4.6 mi away in Greenville, MS
• Bethlehem Number 1 Church — 4.7 mi away in Shaw, MS
• Pleasant Valley Church — 4.8 mi away
• Bogue Church — 5 mi away
• Bethlehem Number 2 Church — 5 mi away in Shaw, MS
• King Solomon Church — 5.1 mi away
• Pleasant Point Church — 5.1 mi away