New Zion Church

The community around New Zion Church

It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Child Poverty: 32.3% (20.9–44.8%)
• Obesity: 39.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
• Poverty Rate: 19.1% (10.4–27.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 17.2%
• Diabetes: 14.2%
• Unemployment: 6.4% (1.1–11.9%)

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

Churches near New Zion Church

• Pine Bluff Church — 3.1 mi away
• Pinewood Church — 3.9 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Sweetwater Church — 4.4 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Triumph Church — 5.1 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Paramount Missionary Church — 5.3 mi away in Wiggins, MS
• Little Sweetwater Missionary Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Little Creek Church — 5.9 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Church of God — 7.1 mi away in Lucedale, MS
• Mars Hill Church — 7.5 mi away in Wiggins, MS