Holy City Church

The community around Holy City Church

It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half 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.

• Obesity: 50.8%
• Social Isolation: 40.8%
• Food Insecurity: 37.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 28.2%
• Diabetes: 20.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.0%
• Poverty Rate: 28.4% (17.4–39.5%)
• Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.7%
• Child Poverty: 25.1% (9.7–40.5%)

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

Churches near Holy City Church

• Saint Peters Rock Church — 1.5 mi away in Lexington, MS
• Pleasant Grove Church — 1.9 mi away in Benton, MS
• Pleasant Green Church — 2.3 mi away
• Ebenezer Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in Lexington, MS
• Ebenezer Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Lexington, MS
• Antioch Church — 3.2 mi away in Benton, MS
• Sanctified Church — 3.6 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 3.7 mi away in Lexington, MS
• Cypress Chapel — 3.8 mi away in Lexington, MS
• New Canaan Church — 4.1 mi away