Lanier Memorial Church

The community around Lanier Memorial Church

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.

• Child Poverty: 40.8% (25.4–56.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 25.5%
• Social Isolation: 38.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
• Diabetes: 17.1%
• Obesity: 38.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.2%
• Poverty Rate: 17.2% (6.5–27.9%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%

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

Churches near Lanier Memorial Church

• Bethel Church — 0.2 mi away
• Roper Heights Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
• Reeds Chapel Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Manna Fellowship — 1.7 mi away
• Bethlehem Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Emmanuel Chapel Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Eagle's Nest Cathedral — 1.7 mi away
• West Point Presbyterian Church — 1.8 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Keeney Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away