Old Ark Church

The community around Old Ark 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 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Food Insecurity: 26.0%
• Child Poverty: 39.6% (22.3–56.8%)
• Social Isolation: 32.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
• Poverty Rate: 27.8% (18.3–37.3%)
• Diabetes: 17.9%
• Obesity: 39.2%
• Depression: 23.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (8.2–19.9%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Old Ark Church

• Nurse Chapel — 3.3 mi away in Hemingway, SC
• Pee Dee Church — 4 mi away in Hemingway, SC
• Piney Grove Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
• Williams Hill Church — 5 mi away in Hemingway, SC
• Pauley Swamp Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Conway, SC
• Browns Church — 5.2 mi away in Conway, SC
• Cane Branch AME Church — 5.5 mi away in Conway, SC
• Oak Grove Church — 5.7 mi away in Conway, SC
• Jerusalem Church — 5.9 mi away in Hemingway, SC
• Old Antioch Church — 6 mi away in Conway, SC