Sandhill Missionary Church

The community around Sandhill Missionary Church

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 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: 41.2%
• Child Poverty: 39.8% (22.1–57.6%)
• Social Isolation: 33.3%
• Poverty Rate: 23.7% (14.9–32.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.1%
• Diabetes: 16.3%
• Depression: 24.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
• Unemployment: 7.0% (1.4–12.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sandhill Missionary Church

• Saint James Church — 0.6 mi away
• St James AME Zion Church — 2.1 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• New Center Church — 2.6 mi away
• Western Prong Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Mount Hebron Church — 3 mi away
• Mount Calvary Church — 3.5 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• First Missionary Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Graham Tabernacle — 3.8 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• Grace Church — 3.9 mi away
• Piney Grove Church — 4.1 mi away in Clarkton, NC