New Prospect Church

The community around New Prospect Church

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: 41.0%
• Child Poverty: 35.4% (17.6–53.2%)
• Social Isolation: 33.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.7%
• Poverty Rate: 17.8% (8.9–26.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 15.7%
• Diabetes: 13.6%

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

Churches near New Prospect Church

• Wesley Congregational Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away in Dumas, MS
• Clear Creek Church — 2.4 mi away
• Wier Chapel — 2.5 mi away
• Dumas Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Dumas, MS
• Fellowship Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Jacobs Chapel — 2.8 mi away
• Paynes Chapel — 2.8 mi away
• Pine Grove Church — 3.3 mi away
• Saint John Church — 3.4 mi away
• Fellowship Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away