Sams Memorial Church

The community around Sams Memorial 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
• Poverty Rate: 31.7% (19.7–43.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 29.9%
• Diabetes: 20.7%
• Obesity: 43.8%
• Social Isolation: 39.8%
• Housing Insecurity: 21.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (5.4–16.7%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sams Memorial Church

• New Home Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• New Homes Church — 0.4 mi away
• East Light Church — 0.9 mi away
• First African Church — 1.7 mi away
• Prospect Church — 2.2 mi away
• Elm Grove Church — 2.3 mi away in Darien, GA
• Calvary Church — 2.3 mi away
• Union Church — 2.6 mi away
• Bellville Church — 2.7 mi away
• St Mark Ame Church — 2.8 mi away