Sandy Grove AME Church

The community around Sandy Grove AME Church

It takes 5.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.

• Diabetes: 18.8%
• Obesity: 42.3%
• Social Isolation: 38.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
• Food Insecurity: 24.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
• Child Poverty: 25.8% (10.6–41.1%)
• Poverty Rate: 20.0% (13.0–27.0%)
• Housing Insecurity: 19.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
• Unemployment: 7.1% (3.5–10.8%)

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

Churches near Sandy Grove AME Church

• Johnson Church — 1.4 mi away
• Williams Grove Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Mitchell, GA
• Mill Creek Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Gibson, GA
• Stamp Branch Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Gibson First Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away in Gibson, GA
• Gibson First Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Gibson, GA
• Magnolia Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Gibson, GA
• New Salem Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
• Little Brier Creek Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away