Saint Johns Church

The community around Saint Johns Church

It takes 6.3 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 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.

• Child Poverty: 69.8%
• Obesity: 51.8%
• Social Isolation: 42.4%
• Food Insecurity: 41.5%
• Poverty Rate: 41.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 30.1%
• Diabetes: 24.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.0%
• Unemployment: 12.9% (5.9–19.9%)
• Transportation Barriers: 21.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint Johns Church

• Annie York Church — 1.8 mi away
• Mount Harmon Church — 2 mi away
• Mount Rosies Church — 2.3 mi away
• Holiness Pentecostal Church of Christ — 2.4 mi away
• Tchula Presbyterian Church — 2.5 mi away
• Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 2.9 mi away
• New Jerusalem Church of God In Christ — 3.2 mi away
• Rose Hill Church — 3.6 mi away in Lexington, MS
• Zion City Church — 3.8 mi away