Old Center Church

The community around Old Center Church

It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.1% (14.2–26.0%)
• Child Poverty: 34.5% (18.7–50.4%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
• Obesity: 39.0%
• Depression: 24.8%
• Poverty Rate: 20.7% (13.7–27.7%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
• Diabetes: 15.0%

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

Churches near Old Center Church

• Social Point Church — 0.8 mi away
• Woods New Hope Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Tenaha, TX
• Methodist Church Concord — 3.5 mi away
• Woods Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Truitt Chapel — 3.9 mi away in Joaquin, TX
• Ramah Church — 4 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Church — 4.4 mi away
• Willow Grove Church — 5.2 mi away in Joaquin, TX
• First Baptist Church, Tenaha, Texas — 5.5 mi away in Tenaha, TX
• Old Home Church — 5.5 mi away in Joaquin, TX