Paynes Chapel

The community around Paynes 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: 42.7%
• Child Poverty: 35.4% (17.6–53.2%)
• Social Isolation: 33.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
• Poverty Rate: 20.6% (11.9–29.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.9%
• Diabetes: 14.9%

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

Churches near Paynes Chapel

• Mount Olive Church — 1.1 mi away
• Turners Chapel — 1.3 mi away
• Chapman Church — 1.7 mi away
• Westminster Presbyterian Church — 1.8 mi away
• Clear Creek Church — 2.3 mi away
• New Prospect Church — 2.8 mi away
• New Harmony United Church — 2.9 mi away
• Wesley Congregational Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in Dumas, MS
• Wier Chapel — 3.1 mi away
• New Harmony Church — 3.4 mi away