Pierces Chapel

The community around Pierces Chapel

It takes 5.2 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Child Poverty: 43.3% (25.7–61.0%)
• Obesity: 42.1%
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Food Insecurity: 21.7%
• Diabetes: 17.1%
• Unemployment: 12.0% (4.0–20.0%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
• Poverty Rate: 20.1% (10.7–29.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.7%

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

Churches near Pierces Chapel

• New Jerusalem Church — 0.4 mi away
• Elkton Church — 2 mi away
• Central Church — 2 mi away
• White Plains Church — 2.4 mi away in Council, NC
• Rehoboth Church — 2.5 mi away
• Christian Plain Church — 3 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• Sandy Plain Church — 3.8 mi away
• Saint James Church — 4.1 mi away in Lake Waccamaw, NC
• New Beginnings Holiness Church — 4.4 mi away in Council, NC
• Shady Grove Church — 4.4 mi away in Council, NC