Turnpike Church

The community around Turnpike Church

It takes 3.4 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 35.3%
• Obesity: 38.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
• Child Poverty: 23.9% (10.8–37.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.3%
• Poverty Rate: 16.3% (9.9–22.8%)
• Diabetes: 13.4%

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

Churches near Turnpike Church

• Crossroads Church — 2.1 mi away in Thaxton, MS
• Bethlehem Church — 2.2 mi away
• Thaxton Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Thaxton, MS
• Piny Grove Church — 3.2 mi away
• Thaxton United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away in Thaxton, MS
• Hayseed Cowboy Church — 3.5 mi away in Thaxton, MS
• Buchannan Missionary Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 3.7 mi away
• Bluff Springs Church — 4 mi away
• Beulah Grove Church — 4.1 mi away in Ecru, MS