Mount Salem Church

The community around Mount Salem Church

It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. 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.

• Social Isolation: 35.7%
• Obesity: 38.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.4%
• Food Insecurity: 17.1%
• Diabetes: 14.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (6.8–17.5%)

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

Churches near Mount Salem Church

• Mount Pisgah Church — 0.5 mi away
• Sweetwater Church — 1 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.8 mi away
• Pleasant Ridge Church — 1.9 mi away
• Mercy Seat Church — 2.3 mi away in Hazlehurst, MS
• Jericho Church — 3.3 mi away
• New Hope Church — 3.6 mi away
• Greater Galilee Church — 3.8 mi away
• New Hope Church — 4 mi away
• New Hope United Methodist Church — 4 mi away