Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Social Isolation: 34.0%
• Child Poverty: 30.8% (12.7–49.4%)
• Poverty Rate: 26.9% (14.9–38.9%)
• Diabetes: 15.2%
• Obesity: 39.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.9%
• Food Insecurity: 19.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (4.9–20.2%)

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

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Mt Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Bailey, MS
• Pleasant Grove Church — 1.2 mi away
• Frazier Grove Church — 1.9 mi away
• Bethel Church — 2.3 mi away
• Union Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Arkadelphia Church — 2.8 mi away
• Center Hill Pentecostal Church — 3.7 mi away
• Pine Forest Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Collinsville, MS
• Mount Carmel Church — 4.3 mi away
• Pine Grove Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Collinsville, MS