Paradise Church

The community around Paradise Church

It takes 4.4 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.8%
• Social Isolation: 33.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.1%
• Food Insecurity: 20.6%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Poverty Rate: 21.1% (10.5–31.7%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (7.0–19.5%)

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

Churches near Paradise Church

• Carter's Branch Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
• Bethlehem Church — 1.8 mi away
• Carter's Branch Missionary Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• Mount Glory Church — 2 mi away in Iuka, MS
• Way of Life Worship Center — 2.2 mi away
• Highland Church — 2.7 mi away
• Tishomingo Church of Christ — 2.8 mi away
• Forest Grove Church — 2.8 mi away
• Tishomingo United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Tishomingo Pentecostal Church — 2.9 mi away