New Center Church

The community around New Center Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Obesity: 41.3%
• Child Poverty: 39.4% (20.3–58.5%)
• Social Isolation: 33.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.2%
• Poverty Rate: 23.6% (15.0–32.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.2%
• Diabetes: 16.3%
• Depression: 25.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
• Unemployment: 6.3% (0.7–11.9%)

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

Churches near New Center Church

• Mount Calvary Church — 1.8 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• Sandhill Missionary Church — 2.6 mi away
• Temple Church — 2.6 mi away in Evergreen, NC
• Grace Church — 2.7 mi away
• Center Church — 2.8 mi away in Evergreen, NC
• Saint James Church — 2.9 mi away
• Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Western Prong Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Lennons Crossroads Church — 4.2 mi away in Evergreen, NC
• Prong Chapel — 4.2 mi away in Whiteville, NC