Cross Roads Church

The community around Cross Roads Church

It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third 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: 45.2% (27.0–63.4%)
• Obesity: 42.3%
• Social Isolation: 36.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
• Poverty Rate: 28.1% (19.3–36.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.9%
• Diabetes: 16.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.4% (8.3–16.4%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%

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

Churches near Cross Roads Church

• Golden Grove Methodist Protestant Church — 1.5 mi away
• County Line Church — 2.4 mi away
• Pine Grove Church — 3.6 mi away
• Union Pentecostal Church — 3.7 mi away
• First United Church — 3.8 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
• Neshoba Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 4.3 mi away
• Greenland Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
• Union United Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away