Mount Gilead Church

The community around Mount Gilead Church

It takes 4.1 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: 41.2%
• Social Isolation: 34.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
• Food Insecurity: 21.8%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Unemployment: 8.1% (0.1–17.0%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
• Poverty Rate: 21.2% (9.5–32.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Gilead Church

• New Hope Church — 0.5 mi away in Meridian, MS
• Freedom Church — 2.9 mi away in Meridian, MS
• Toomsuba Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Little Hope Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Meridian, MS
• Pleasant Grove Church — 4 mi away
• Coker Chapel — 4 mi away in Meridian, MS
• Russell Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Meridian, MS
• Mount Horem Church — 4.5 mi away in Meridian, MS
• Mount Carmel Church — 4.7 mi away in Meridian, MS