Mary and Martha Church

The community around Mary and Martha Church

It takes 3.5 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 of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 40.5%
• Social Isolation: 35.0%
• Child Poverty: 33.9% (15.3–52.5%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
• Food Insecurity: 20.2%
• Depression: 26.0%
• Poverty Rate: 21.1% (12.7–29.5%)
• Diabetes: 14.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (7.8–17.7%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mary and Martha Church

• Saint James Church — 0.1 mi away
• New Haven Church — 1.5 mi away
• Unity Christian Church — 2.9 mi away in New Bern, NC
• Kit Swamp Church — 3.2 mi away
• Cool Springs Free Will Baptist — 3.6 mi away in Vanceboro, NC
• Spring Hope Church — 3.9 mi away in New Bern, NC
• Macedonia Church — 4 mi away in Vanceboro, NC
• Antioch Church — 6.2 mi away in New Bern, NC
• Triumph Church — 6.5 mi away
• Saint Anna Church — 7.2 mi away