Morris Chapel

The community around Morris Chapel

It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

• Child Poverty: 58.3%
• Obesity: 50.1%
• Poverty Rate: 42.3%
• Food Insecurity: 38.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
• Diabetes: 22.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.5% (12.6–28.4%)
• Social Isolation: 37.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 20.4%
• Unemployment: 11.9% (1.6–22.8%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Morris Chapel

• Spring Hill Church — 2 mi away
• Sardis Lake Church — 2.1 mi away
• Heart Generation Church — 2.2 mi away
• Encounter Worship Center — 2.8 mi away
• Church of Christ — 3 mi away
• Sardis Church of Chirst — 3 mi away
• Presbyterian Church of Sardis — 3.1 mi away
• Sardis United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Wesley Chapel — 3.2 mi away
• Bethlehem Church — 3.3 mi away in Batesville, MS