Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 8.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
• Diabetes: 19.7%
• Obesity: 41.5%
• Social Isolation: 33.6%
• Depression: 30.5%
• Poverty Rate: 25.3% (16.7–34.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.5%
• Unemployment: 10.8% (1.8–19.9%)
• Child Poverty: 25.2% (6.9–43.5%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%

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

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• Wilson Chapel — 0.9 mi away
• Edray United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Mountain View Assembly of God — 1.3 mi away
• Central Union Church — 1.8 mi away
• Stony Creek Presbyterian Church — 2.4 mi away
• Hamlin United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Fairview Church — 2.6 mi away
• West Union Church — 3.7 mi away
• Grace Baptist Church — 4 mi away
• Woods-Poage Chapel — 4 mi away