Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 6.2 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 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 30.9%
• Diabetes: 18.9%
• Obesity: 44.2%
• Social Isolation: 37.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
• Child Poverty: 32.4% (16.1–48.7%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
• Poverty Rate: 22.3% (13.2–31.5%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (6.7–24.4%)
• Transportation Barriers: 15.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Holly Grove Church — 1.8 mi away
• Mount Moriah Church — 1.9 mi away in Indianola, MS
• Eastern Star Church — 2.1 mi away
• Mount Elm Church — 2.9 mi away
• Saint Marks Church — 3.1 mi away
• Pleasant Valley Church — 3.4 mi away
• Bethlehem Church Number 1 — 4 mi away in Indianola, MS
• Saint Matthew Church — 4.1 mi away
• Bethlehem Church Number 2 — 4.2 mi away in Indianola, MS
• Mount Zion Church — 4.2 mi away