Mays Prairie Church

The community around Mays Prairie Church

It takes 6.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.3% (16.4–28.1%)
• Child Poverty: 33.8% (16.9–50.7%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.2%
• Food Insecurity: 22.3%
• Obesity: 38.4%
• Social Isolation: 31.8%
• Depression: 25.5%
• Poverty Rate: 17.8% (9.4–26.2%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
• Diabetes: 14.8%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mays Prairie Church

• Direct Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Church of Christ — 1 mi away
• Corinth Church — 2.1 mi away
• Bibleway Church — 5.3 mi away
• Tigertown MEC Church — 5.8 mi away in Honey Grove, TX
• United Methodist Church — 6.1 mi away
• Cottonwood Church of God — 6.2 mi away
• Mount Vernon Church — 6.2 mi away
• Maxey Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away
• Little Vine Church — 7.4 mi away