Gorham Swamp Church

The community around Gorham Swamp Church

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.

• Child Poverty: 41.0% (25.9–56.1%)
• Social Isolation: 34.3%
• Unemployment: 8.2% (1.8–14.6%)
• Obesity: 38.6%
• Depression: 26.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.0%
• Poverty Rate: 21.9% (14.5–29.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 19.6%
• Diabetes: 13.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%

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

Churches near Gorham Swamp Church

• Restoring Outreach Ministry — 1.6 mi away in Vanceboro, NC
• Union Chapel — 2.2 mi away
• Noe Chapel — 2.9 mi away
• Haw Branch Church — 4.3 mi away
• Oak Grove Church — 4.4 mi away in Vanceboro, NC
• Cedar Grove Church — 5 mi away
• Providence Church — 5.3 mi away
• Palmeto Church — 5.3 mi away in Vanceboro, NC
• Piney Grove Church — 5.4 mi away
• Saint James Church — 5.4 mi away