Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 6.4 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: 43.4%
• Social Isolation: 35.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
• Food Insecurity: 23.1%
• Diabetes: 17.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
• Poverty Rate: 19.5% (12.4–26.5%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.7% (8.7–20.6%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Mt Pleasant Baptist Church — 0 mi away
• Sylvarena Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
• Saint Johns Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Sylvarena, MS
• Cedar Grove Church — 3 mi away
• Hopewell Church — 3 mi away
• Double Church — 3.1 mi away
• Saint John Church — 3.2 mi away in Bay Springs, MS
• Warren Hill Church — 4.3 mi away in Louin, MS
• Beaverdam Church — 4.3 mi away in Taylorsville, MS
• Mineral Springs Church — 5 mi away in Taylorsville, MS