Old Plank Church

The community around Old Plank Church

It takes 6.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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.

• Diabetes: 18.7%
• Obesity: 41.4%
• Social Isolation: 34.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
• Food Insecurity: 23.9%
• Poverty Rate: 22.5% (13.2–31.8%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.3% (5.7–16.8%)

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

Churches near Old Plank Church

• Wesley Chapel — 1.1 mi away in Vaiden, MS
• Pine Bluff Church — 2.9 mi away in Vaiden, MS
• Hebron Church — 3.2 mi away in Vaiden, MS
• Vaiden Hill Church — 3.8 mi away
• Shiloh Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away in Vaiden, MS
• Providence Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away in Vaiden, MS
• Vaiden Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away in Vaiden, MS
• Tuckersville Church — 4.9 mi away in Vaiden, MS
• Vaiden Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Vaiden, MS
• Bethany Church of God — 5.1 mi away in Kilmichael, MS