Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive 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 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Child Poverty: 40.6% (22.6–58.7%)
• Obesity: 43.1%
• Social Isolation: 37.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
• Poverty Rate: 27.1% (18.0–36.2%)
• Food Insecurity: 24.9%
• Diabetes: 17.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
• Unemployment: 6.7% (1.5–12.0%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• Victory Fellowship Church — 2.5 mi away in Union, MS
• Community Church — 2.5 mi away
• Linwood Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Union, MS
• Holy Rosary Indian Mission Church — 3.2 mi away
• Holy Rosary Catholic Church — 3.3 mi away
• Good Hope Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Union, MS
• Oak Ridge Church — 3.9 mi away in Union, MS
• Golden Grove Methodist Protestant Church — 4.1 mi away in Union, MS
• Goodhope Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
• Mount Carmel Church — 4.7 mi away in Union, MS