Shelton Laurel Chapel

The community around Shelton Laurel Chapel

It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.

• Social Isolation: 29.6%
• Depression: 25.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (7.8–19.7%)

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

Churches near Shelton Laurel Chapel

• Fines Creek United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
• White Oak Church — 1.3 mi away in Waynesville, NC
• Panther Creek Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Fines Creek Memorial Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Liberty Church — 3.6 mi away in Waynesville, NC
• Cove Creek Church — 4.8 mi away in Waynesville, NC
• Pine Grove Church — 4.8 mi away
• Holiness Church — 5.1 mi away in Waynesville, NC
• Belmont Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away
• Little Cataloochee Church — 5.6 mi away in Waynesville, NC