Welcome Church

The community around Welcome Church

It takes 3.6 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 about 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: 34.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
• Food Insecurity: 21.7%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Unemployment: 8.3% (0.7–16.9%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
• Poverty Rate: 17.4% (10.6–24.2%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Welcome Church

• New Zion Church — 1 mi away in Milton, NC
• Blanch Church — 1.9 mi away
• Shiloh Church — 2 mi away in Milton, NC
• River Zion Church — 2.2 mi away
• The Word of Faith Apostolic Church — 3.7 mi away in Milton, NC
• High Rock Church — 3.7 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 4 mi away in Milton, NC
• High Street Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Milton, NC
• Milton Presbyterian Church — 4.2 mi away in Milton, NC
• Palmer Church — 4.2 mi away in Milton, NC