BibleWay M. B. Church

The community around BibleWay M. B. Church

It takes 3.9 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third 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: 45.9%
• Child Poverty: 40.5% (24.5–56.7%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
• Food Insecurity: 31.1%
• Diabetes: 20.8%
• Social Isolation: 37.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
• Poverty Rate: 27.6% (18.2–37.0%)
• Housing Insecurity: 22.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (7.0–17.5%)

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

Churches near BibleWay M. B. Church

• Saint Theresa Catholic Church — 1.6 mi away
• First Christian Church — 1.7 mi away
• Okolona First United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Okolona First Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Okolona Presbyterian Church — 1.8 mi away
• Grace Episcopal Church — 1.8 mi away
• North Gatlin Street Church of Christ — 1.9 mi away
• West Main Street Church of Christ — 1.9 mi away
• Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Calvary Baptist Church — 2 mi away