Saint Theresa Catholic Church

Saint Theresa Catholic Church is a church in Okolona, MS 38860. It is one of 44 churches in Okolona.

Okolona, MS, 38860

Saint Theresa Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 158 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Mississippi — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.

From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.

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The community around Saint Theresa Catholic 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: 46.4%
Child Poverty: 44.0% (27.8–60.4%)
Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
Food Insecurity: 32.3%
Diabetes: 21.2%
Social Isolation: 38.1%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.1%
Poverty Rate: 29.2% (19.7–38.6%)
Housing Insecurity: 23.2%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.3%
Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (7.4–17.2%)

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

Churches near Saint Theresa Catholic Church

First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
Okolona First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Okolona First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
North Gatlin Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
Grace Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
Okolona Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
Mount Pisgah United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
St Theresa's Church Catholic Center — 0.4 mi away
Church of God of Prophecy — 0.7 mi away

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