Jacobs Chapel

The community around Jacobs Chapel

It takes 4.0 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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: 40.9%
• Child Poverty: 34.5% (16.9–52.2%)
• Social Isolation: 33.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.6%
• Poverty Rate: 17.4% (8.5–26.3%)
• Food Insecurity: 15.8%
• Diabetes: 13.6%

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

Churches near Jacobs Chapel

• Fellowship Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Fellowship Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• Fellowship Church — 2 mi away
• Wier Chapel — 2.2 mi away
• New Hope Church — 2.6 mi away in Blue Mountain, MS
• Saint John Church — 2.7 mi away
• New Prospect Church — 2.8 mi away
• Adkins Chapel — 3.2 mi away in Blue Mountain, MS
• Wesley Congregational Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away in Dumas, MS
• Antioch Church — 3.9 mi away in Blue Mountain, MS