Romine Church of the Brethren

The community around Romine Church of the Brethren

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 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Social Isolation: 33.2%
• Obesity: 39.8%
• Child Poverty: 25.3% (10.9–39.8%)
• Depression: 23.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
• Poverty Rate: 18.3% (12.6–24.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 15.9%
• Diabetes: 13.6%
• Unemployment: 6.5% (2.7–10.2%)

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

Churches near Romine Church of the Brethren

• Rabbit Grove Church — 2.5 mi away
• Old Bethel Church — 2.6 mi away
• Calvary Free Will Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Harveys Point Church — 3.1 mi away
• First Pentecostal Church — 3.2 mi away
• Hoyleton Ministries — 3.3 mi away
• New Bethel Church — 3.4 mi away
• Salem Church of Christ — 3.4 mi away
• First General Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away