Shady Grove C.M.E. Church

The community around Shady Grove C.M.E. Church

It takes 5.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 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.

• Child Poverty: 44.0% (29.8–58.8%)
• Diabetes: 19.2%
• Obesity: 40.9%
• Social Isolation: 38.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
• Food Insecurity: 24.6%
• Poverty Rate: 23.4% (14.3–32.5%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (9.1–21.6%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%

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

Churches near Shady Grove C.M.E. Church

• Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Drayton Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away in Vienna, GA
• Drayton Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Vienna, GA
• Riverview Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Vienna, GA
• Bay Point Church — 4.1 mi away
• Old Corinth Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Leslie, GA
• Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Vienna, GA
• Spring Creek Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
• Union Grove Church — 5.8 mi away in Americus, GA
• Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away