Mount Bethany Church

The community around Mount Bethany Church

It takes 4.5 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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: 42.5%
• Social Isolation: 37.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
• Food Insecurity: 23.4%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Unemployment: 11.9% (2.4–21.5%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Bethany Church

• Prairie Chapel — 1.8 mi away
• Providence Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Pine Grove Church — 2.8 mi away
• Carolina Church — 2.9 mi away
• Steam Mill Church — 3.1 mi away in Union, MS
• High Hill Church — 3.1 mi away
• Shield of Faith Ministry Church — 3.6 mi away
• Pleasant Valley Church — 3.7 mi away in Union, MS
• Pine Grove Church — 3.7 mi away in Union, MS
• Old Arbor Mount Zion Church — 3.9 mi away in Walnut Grove, MS