Mount Elam Church

The community around Mount Elam Church

It takes 5.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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: 40.9%
• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Diabetes: 15.5%
• Depression: 24.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
• Food Insecurity: 19.5%
• Poverty Rate: 16.9% (6.9–26.9%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (6.6–19.2%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%

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

Churches near Mount Elam Church

• Antioch Church — 2.4 mi away
• Parkersburg Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Peters Creek Church — 2.8 mi away in Roseboro, NC
• Smith Chapel — 3.6 mi away
• Miller Chapel — 3.9 mi away
• Sinai Church — 3.9 mi away
• Cypress Creek Church — 4.1 mi away
• Saint Matthews Church — 4.1 mi away
• Cypress Creek Church of God — 4.5 mi away
• Garland Church — 4.5 mi away