Okolona Presbyterian Church
Okolona Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in Okolona, MS 38860. It is one of 44 churches in Okolona, and one of 2 Presbyterian congregations in the city.
Okolona, MS, 38860Okolona Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 200 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Mississippi — 11,639 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around Okolona Presbyterian 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 nearly half 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: 46.6%
- Child Poverty: 45.9% (29.5–62.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.9%
- Food Insecurity: 32.7%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.2%
- Poverty Rate: 29.8% (20.4–39.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.4% (7.6–17.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Okolona Presbyterian Church
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- Okolona First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Gatlin Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Okolona First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Theresa Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Theresa's Church Catholic Center — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Wren Presbyterian Church — 8.3 mi away
- Nettleton Presbyterian Church — 9.6 mi away in Nettleton, MS
- Faith Presbyterian Church — 14.6 mi away in Aberdeen, MS
- Houlka Presbyterian Church — 15.3 mi away in New Houlka, MS
- First Presbyterian Church — 15.4 mi away in Amory, MS
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