Jesus Name Church

The community around Jesus Name Church

It takes 5.3 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 nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.3%
• Social Isolation: 35.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
• Food Insecurity: 23.8%
• Poverty Rate: 22.7% (12.4–33.0%)
• Diabetes: 17.8%
• Unemployment: 10.4% (2.6–18.4%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%

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

Churches near Jesus Name Church

• First Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
• Noxapater Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Noxapater Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Mount Vernon Church — 1.4 mi away
• Hight Church — 1.5 mi away
• Union Ridge Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Mount Pisgah Church — 3.9 mi away
• Mount Pleasant Church — 4 mi away
• Mount Ary Church — 4.7 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Narrow Way Church — 5 mi away in Philadelphia, MS