New Mount Zion Free Will Baptist Church

The community around New Mount Zion Free Will Baptist Church

It takes 3.0 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 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 45.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
• Food Insecurity: 28.7%
• Diabetes: 21.7%
• Social Isolation: 36.5%
• Poverty Rate: 22.2% (14.5–29.9%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
• Unemployment: 8.7% (2.9–14.5%)
• Child Poverty: 28.9% (10.2–47.6%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Abbeville city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 442 residents.

Churches near New Mount Zion Free Will Baptist Church

• Abbeville Memorial Church of God — 0.1 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Abbeville Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Abbeville First Assembly of God — 0.5 mi away
• St Peter Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Saint John AME Church — 0.9 mi away
• Calvary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Lighthouse Community Church — 1.6 mi away
• Hickory Grove Church — 2.2 mi away
• The Most Holy Church — 2.7 mi away