Lacks Chapel

The community around Lacks Chapel

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

• Obesity: 47.4%
• Child Poverty: 40.0% (24.2–55.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 35.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
• Poverty Rate: 32.2% (23.7–40.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 26.2%
• Diabetes: 20.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.3%
• Social Isolation: 38.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
• Transportation Barriers: 18.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (8.6–16.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.

Brookhaven city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 367 residents.

Churches near Lacks Chapel

• River of Life Church UPCI — 0.1 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.3 mi away
• Greater New Zion Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
• First United Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
• Heritage Family Church — 0.4 mi away
• Northview Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Jackson Street United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
• Grace Community Church — 0.6 mi away
• Mount Wade Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away