Bright Star Church

The community around Bright Star Church

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.

• Food Insecurity: 30.3%
• Diabetes: 20.1%
• Obesity: 44.3%
• Social Isolation: 35.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
• Poverty Rate: 24.4% (16.2–32.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (9.9–22.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
• Child Poverty: 28.4% (12.5–44.3%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
• Unemployment: 6.2% (1.6–10.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bright Star Church

• Sellers Chapel Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Sellers, SC
• New Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away in Sellers, SC
• Piney Grove Church — 1.8 mi away
• Antioch Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• The Transformation Community Church — 4 mi away in Latta, SC
• Old Ebenezer Church — 4.4 mi away in Latta, SC
• Sardis Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Latta, SC
• Berean Church of Christ — 4.8 mi away in Latta, SC
• New Hope Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Latta, SC
• Pee Dee Church — 5 mi away in Marion, SC