Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive Church

It takes 4.6 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 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.

• Obesity: 40.1%
• Social Isolation: 33.8%
• Diabetes: 16.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
• Food Insecurity: 19.7%
• Poverty Rate: 19.4% (10.7–28.2%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.4% (6.4–18.4%)

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

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• Lee Town Church — 1 mi away
• Hickory Grove Church — 1.8 mi away
• Elder Ridge Church — 2.7 mi away in Pistol Ridge, MS
• Christ Gospel Church — 3.5 mi away
• Church of the Way — 3.6 mi away
• Sunny Hill Church — 4.6 mi away in Purvis, MS
• East Main Missionary Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
• Hickory Creek Church — 4.7 mi away
• Grace Covenant Church Of Lamar County — 4.8 mi away in Purvis, MS
• First Baptist Church of Carnes — 5 mi away