Morning Star Church

The community around Morning Star 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 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.

• Food Insecurity: 26.5%
• Obesity: 41.3%
• Social Isolation: 37.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.6% (10.7–24.4%)
• Diabetes: 17.0%
• Child Poverty: 24.8% (14.7–34.8%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.8% (14.0–29.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 19.4%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
• Unemployment: 7.5% (2.0–13.1%)

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

Churches near Morning Star Church

• Chapel Hill Church — 0.4 mi away
• Spring Hill Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 2.2 mi away in Hazlehurst, MS
• Sylvarena Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Hazlehurst, MS
• Wesson United Pentecostal Church — 4.3 mi away
• Hazlehurst Orion Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 4.5 mi away in Hazlehurst, MS
• Mount Zion Church of God Christ — 4.6 mi away in Hazlehurst, MS
• Westside Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Hazlehurst, MS
• Center Point Church — 4.8 mi away in Hazlehurst, MS