Two area churches will be offering COVID-19 vaccinations on Sunday.
Pleasant Grove East McComb Baptist Church, 800 Pearl River Ave., McComb, will offer vaccinations by Caring Hands Medical Clinic of Monticello from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church educational building.
And a previously scheduled vaccination at St. Mary Free Will Baptist Church No. 1 in McComb that was postponed due to Hurricane Ida will be held from 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Rep. Daryl Porter Jr., D-Summit, along with the Mississippi Legilative Black Caucus, is sponsoring the vaccination with shots given by Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center personnel at the church, located at 4079 Highway 51 S., McComb.
“We are happy to announce that we have rescheduled our vaccination drive,” Porter said in a Facebook post. “I hope that you will join me and others in the fight to protect ourselves and our loved ones. Together we can eradicate COVID-19.”
This is the second vaccination clinic to be held at Pleasant Grove East McComb Baptist Church. Church official Sheilar Conerly Pickens said last month that the church’s vaccination effort is part of a vision of Pastor Hilton Harrell and congregational nurse Cindy Johns.
Johns reached out to the Mississippi State Department of Health, which is trying to get more churches involved in promoting vaccinations, and lined up Caring Hands to provide the shots, Pickens said. Pickens said the vaccination drive is for the community, not just church members.
