Pleasant Grove Church

The community around Pleasant Grove Church

It takes 4.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Child Poverty: 35.6% (17.4–53.7%)
• Social Isolation: 34.7%
• Diabetes: 15.0%
• Unemployment: 9.8% (1.4–18.4%)
• Obesity: 40.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
• Poverty Rate: 20.8% (9.8–31.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 19.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (7.4–18.6%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Pleasant Grove Church

• Antioch Church — 0.8 mi away
• Harmony Church — 2 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
• East Lincoln Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
• Oak Grove Church — 3.1 mi away in Jayess, MS
• New Hope Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
• Union Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Brookhaven, MS
• Fair River Church — 4.8 mi away
• New Zion Church — 4.8 mi away
• Carmel Church — 5.5 mi away
• Forest Grove Church — 5.8 mi away in Jayess, MS