Mercy Seat Church
Mercy Seat Church is a church in Lyon, MS 38645. It is one of 14 churches in Lyon.
Lyon, MS, 38645Find Mercy Seat Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Mercy Seat Church
It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 62.2% (46.5–77.9%)
- Obesity: 50.0%
- Poverty Rate: 47.9% (34.5–61.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 45.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.3%
- Diabetes: 26.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (10.0–21.2%)
- Unemployment: 12.0% (6.1–17.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2% (12.2–20.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mercy Seat Church
- Seepwell Church — 1.1 mi away
- New Cassidy Church — 1.9 mi away
- Mount Carmel Church — 2.2 mi away in Clarksdale, MS
- Lyon Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Lyon United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Union Grove Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Clarksdale, MS
- Damascus Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Clarksdale, MS
- Faith Temple COGIC — 2.8 mi away in Clarksdale, MS
- Mt Carmel Mb Church — 2.9 mi away in Clarksdale, MS