First Church

The community around First Church

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Obesity: 40.8%
• Social Isolation: 37.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
• Food Insecurity: 23.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.0% (10.3–25.8%)
• Diabetes: 16.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%

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

Churches near First Church

• Modest Town Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Bloxom, VA
• Iglesia Centro Cristiano Casa de Dios — 2.7 mi away in Bloxom, VA
• Bethel Church — 3.2 mi away
• Temperanceville Church of Christ — 3.7 mi away in Temperanceville, VA
• Bloxom Church of the Nazarene — 3.9 mi away in Bloxom, VA
• Believers In Christ Jesus — 3.9 mi away in Temperanceville, VA
• Shiloh Church — 4.1 mi away
• St. John United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away in Atlantic, VA
• Jerusalem Church — 4.5 mi away
• Woodbury Church — 4.5 mi away in Parksley, VA