Mount Gilead Church

The community around Mount Gilead Church

It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 52.4% (39.1–66.1%)
• Poverty Rate: 32.6% (21.9–43.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.4%
• Food Insecurity: 30.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.1% (19.3–32.9%)
• Obesity: 44.9%
• Social Isolation: 36.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.4%
• Diabetes: 17.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
• Depression: 25.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Gilead Church

• Mount Carmel Church — 0.3 mi away
• Piney Grove Church — 1.6 mi away
• Holly Grove Church — 1.6 mi away
• Milton Grove Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Andrews Chapel — 3 mi away
• Red Hill Church — 3.1 mi away
• Way of the Cross Church — 3.3 mi away in Turkey, NC
• Union Grove Church — 4.3 mi away
• Epworth Church — 4.5 mi away
• Trinity Church — 4.6 mi away in Taylors Bridge, NC