Grace Covenant Church Of Lamar County

The community around Grace Covenant Church Of Lamar County

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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about 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: 42.2%
• Social Isolation: 33.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
• Poverty Rate: 25.5% (15.2–35.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 21.9%
• Diabetes: 17.2%
• Unemployment: 8.0% (2.1–14.0%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.7–16.6%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%

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

Churches near Grace Covenant Church Of Lamar County

• Sunny Hill Church — 0.4 mi away
• Slade Church — 1.3 mi away
• Bass Memorial Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 2.9 mi away in Lumberton, MS
• Clear Branch Church — 3.7 mi away
• Faith Fellowship of Purvis — 4 mi away
• Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church — 4.3 mi away in Lumberton, MS
• Mount Olive Church — 4.8 mi away in Lumberton, MS
• Purvis United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away
• Calvary Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away