Thomas Chapel

The community around Thomas Chapel

It takes 7.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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.

• Diabetes: 18.7%
• Obesity: 43.7%
• Social Isolation: 34.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
• Food Insecurity: 24.2%
• Poverty Rate: 23.8% (13.7–33.9%)
• Unemployment: 8.8% (2.9–14.8%)
• Child Poverty: 29.5% (13.7–45.5%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Thomas Chapel

• Shady Grove Church — 0.1 mi away
• Mount Moriah Church Number 1 — 1.5 mi away
• Mount Able Church — 1.9 mi away
• Mound Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Mount Moriah Church Number 2 — 2.7 mi away
• Mount Abbey Church — 2.8 mi away
• Saint John Church — 3.5 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.9 mi away
• Mount Pleasant Church — 4.7 mi away
• Saint John Church — 5.7 mi away