Foster Chapel

The community around Foster Chapel

It takes 5.5 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 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, 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.

• Obesity: 45.3%
• Diabetes: 18.1%
• Social Isolation: 36.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.0%
• Food Insecurity: 24.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
• Poverty Rate: 17.6% (9.3–25.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%

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

Churches near Foster Chapel

• Union Church — 0.3 mi away
• Union Church — 1.2 mi away
• Una Community M B Church — 2.2 mi away in Prairie, MS
• Shady Grove Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Saint Robertson Church — 2.7 mi away
• McCondy Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Ebenezer Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Lawson Chapel — 3.4 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 4.2 mi away
• Enon Primitive Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Houston, MS