Mercy Seat Church

The community around Mercy Seat Church

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 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.

• Social Isolation: 36.5%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Obesity: 39.9%
• Child Poverty: 25.3% (10.2–40.5%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
• Depression: 23.4%
• Poverty Rate: 20.8% (13.1–28.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%

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

Churches near Mercy Seat Church

• College Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
• Worsham Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• New Witt Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Farmville, VA
• New Wit Church — 3.4 mi away
• Zion Hill Church — 4 mi away
• Solid Rock Church — 4.8 mi away in Farmville, VA
• Douglas Church — 4.8 mi away
• Church of Christ — 5 mi away in Farmville, VA
• Saint John's Lutheran Church — 5 mi away in Farmville, VA
• Calvary Church — 5.5 mi away