Bluefield Church

The community around Bluefield Church

It takes 4.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 55.1% (37.4–72.7%)
• Poverty Rate: 30.4% (18.0–42.7%)
• Obesity: 43.7%
• Social Isolation: 33.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
• Food Insecurity: 23.4%
• Diabetes: 17.7%
• Unemployment: 11.8% (4.9–19.2%)
• Depression: 24.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.3%

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

Churches near Bluefield Church

• Perpetual Praise Fellowship C.o.g — 0.8 mi away
• Unity Fellowship Christian Church — 0.8 mi away
• Savannah Temple Church — 0.9 mi away
• Pilgrim Hill Church — 1.2 mi away
• Brown Marsh Church — 1.9 mi away
• Whites Creek Church — 2 mi away
• True Vine Holiness Church — 2.2 mi away
• Salem Church — 2.5 mi away
• Cromartie Hill Church — 3 mi away
• Clarkton United Church — 3.2 mi away