Lax Community Church

The community around Lax Community Church

It takes 4.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, 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): 21.4% (15.7–27.2%)
• Social Isolation: 39.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
• Food Insecurity: 23.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
• Diabetes: 15.4%
• Obesity: 39.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
• Child Poverty: 22.1% (6.4–37.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 18.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%

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

Churches near Lax Community Church

• Satilla Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Saint Johns Church — 2.7 mi away
• New Bethel Church — 3.3 mi away in Ocilla, GA
• Lax Holiness Church — 3.6 mi away in Willacoochee, GA
• Bethlehem Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Ocilla, GA
• Henderson Chapel — 4.7 mi away in Ocilla, GA
• Eva Chapel — 4.9 mi away
• New Beulah Church — 4.9 mi away
• Union Primitive Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Willacoochee, GA
• Calvary Church — 5 mi away in Ambrose, GA