Morning Star Church

The community around Morning Star Church

It takes 2.9 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 a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 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.

• Obesity: 43.1%
• Social Isolation: 35.7%
• Child Poverty: 35.3% (20.0–51.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
• Poverty Rate: 22.7% (12.7–32.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.1%
• Diabetes: 15.9%
• Unemployment: 8.4% (1.5–15.4%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%

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

Churches near Morning Star Church

• John Willis Chapel — 0.4 mi away
• Bethel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Big Level Church — 2.2 mi away
• Liberty Hill Church — 2.6 mi away in Perkinston, MS
• Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church — 2.7 mi away
• Ten Mile Church — 2.9 mi away in Perkinston, MS
• New Welcome Hill Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Calvary Faithway Missionary Church — 3.1 mi away in Perkinston, MS
• First United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Wiggins Presbyterian Church — 3.5 mi away