Persimmon Mill Church

The community around Persimmon Mill Church

It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Social Isolation: 34.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
• Poverty Rate: 23.5% (10.9–36.2%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.4%
• Diabetes: 15.1%
• Obesity: 38.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
• Depression: 24.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (4.5–17.8%)

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

Churches near Persimmon Mill Church

• Bethel Memorial Church — 1.5 mi away
• Galilee Church — 4.3 mi away
• Grace Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
• First Pentecostal Lighthouse Church — 5.3 mi away in Kiln, MS
• Crane Creek Church — 5.4 mi away in Perkinston, MS
• Wolf Creek Church — 5.7 mi away in Kiln, MS
• Saint Ann Catholic Church — 6 mi away in Lizana, MS
• Old Barth Community Church — 6.2 mi away in Poplarville, MS
• Lizana Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Gulfport, MS
• Shiloh Church — 7 mi away in Perkinston, MS