Bright Star Church
Bright Star Church is a church in Merigold, MS 38759. It is one of 15 churches in Merigold.
Merigold, MS, 38759Find Bright Star Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bright Star Church
It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 49.4% (32.6–66.2%)
- Obesity: 48.6%
- Food Insecurity: 34.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
- Poverty Rate: 31.6% (22.4–40.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.2%
- Diabetes: 22.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.6%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (7.8–15.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bright Star Church
- New Salem Church — 1.7 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
- Lampton Chapel — 2 mi away
- Pleasant Green Church — 2.2 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
- 1st Baptist Church of Merigold — 2.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Merigold Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Jerusalem Church — 2.5 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
- Bright Star Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- St Mark Church of God — 2.7 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
- Merigold United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
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