Mount Nelson Church

The community around Mount Nelson Church

It takes 3.3 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: 33.3%
• Child Poverty: 31.3% (13.1–49.4%)
• Obesity: 38.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.3%
• Diabetes: 14.6%
• Unemployment: 6.8% (1.8–11.9%)

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

Churches near Mount Nelson Church

• Poplar Springs Church — 0.4 mi away
• Cooks Chapel — 1.2 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 2.2 mi away
• Mars Hill Church of God in Christ — 2.5 mi away
• McClain Chapel — 3 mi away
• Ocopla Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Brandon Hill Church — 3.2 mi away
• Sandtown United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Mars Hill Church — 3.3 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 3.8 mi away