Palestine Church

The community around Palestine Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

• Food Insecurity: 25.4%
• Diabetes: 18.3%
• Child Poverty: 38.4% (22.1–55.3%)
• Social Isolation: 35.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
• Poverty Rate: 23.5% (14.5–32.5%)
• Obesity: 39.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (8.2–18.1%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Palestine Church

• Humphreys Church — 1.6 mi away
• Faith Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• First Christian Church — 2.7 mi away
• Church of Christ — 2.8 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 2.9 mi away
• Camp Ground Church — 3 mi away
• First United Methodist Church of Water Valley — 3 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 3.1 mi away
• Otoucalofa Church — 3.1 mi away
• Water Valley SDA Church — 3.5 mi away