First Christian Church

The community around First Christian Church

It takes 3.6 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 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: 46.5%
• Child Poverty: 44.7% (28.4–61.2%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
• Food Insecurity: 32.5%
• Diabetes: 21.3%
• Social Isolation: 38.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.1%
• Poverty Rate: 29.4% (20.0–38.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 23.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
• Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (7.5–17.2%)

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

Churches near First Christian Church

• Okolona First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
• Saint Theresa Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
• Okolona First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• North Gatlin Street Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
• Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
• Okolona Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
• Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
• St Theresa's Church Catholic Center — 0.3 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.6 mi away