Morning Star Church
Morning Star Church is a church in Shelby, MS 38774. It is one of 19 churches in Shelby.
Shelby, MS, 38774Find Morning Star Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Morning Star Church
It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 62.7% (45.5–80.0%)
- Obesity: 51.6%
- Food Insecurity: 42.1%
- Poverty Rate: 41.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.1%
- Diabetes: 24.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.0%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (4.1–15.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (9.1–17.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Morning Star Church
- Pleasant Grove Church — 1.5 mi away
- Zion Grove M.B. Church — 2.2 mi away
- Magnolia Church — 2.3 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 2.4 mi away
- Bradford Chapel — 2.5 mi away
- St. Andrew M.B. Church — 2.5 mi away
- Community Chapel Church — 2.5 mi away
- Community Chapel Assembly of God — 2.5 mi away
- Shiloh M.B. Church — 2.5 mi away
- Pilgrims Rest Church — 3.2 mi away in Mound Bayou, MS
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