Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 5.6 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: 41.5%
• Social Isolation: 35.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
• Poverty Rate: 26.2% (14.6–37.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.9%
• Diabetes: 18.0%
• Unemployment: 10.8% (0.9–21.4%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
• 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 Mount Pleasant Church

• Mount Talley Church — 2.6 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Antioch Church — 3 mi away
• Liberty Church — 3 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 3.4 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Mount Ary Church — 3.8 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Narrow Way Church — 4 mi away in Philadelphia, MS
• Jesus Name Church — 4 mi away
• Mount Vernon Church — 4.1 mi away
• Plattsburg Church — 4.2 mi away
• Hight Church — 4.4 mi away