New Hope Church

The community around New Hope 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Child Poverty: 49.4% (33.3–65.6%)
• Obesity: 46.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
• Food Insecurity: 33.2%
• Poverty Rate: 30.9% (21.9–39.8%)
• Diabetes: 21.5%
• Social Isolation: 38.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (8.1–17.6%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near New Hope Church

• Center Hill Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in New Houlka, MS
• Prairie Mount Church — 1.8 mi away
• Bethany Church — 2.3 mi away
• Chapel Grove West Missionary Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.4 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
• Union Chapel — 3.8 mi away
• New Zion Church — 4.2 mi away in Houston, MS
• New Salem Church — 4.3 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
• Van Vleet United Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away in Houston, MS
• Mount Union Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away