Mount Gilead Church

The community around Mount Gilead Church

It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 32.3%
• Depression: 27.4%
• Obesity: 36.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.6%
• Poverty Rate: 16.4% (8.3–24.6%)
• Diabetes: 13.2%
• Unemployment: 6.9% (2.3–11.9%)

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

Churches near Mount Gilead Church

• South Mountain Baptist Camp — 2.2 mi away
• Olive Grove Church — 2.3 mi away in Casar, NC
• Zion Hill Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Lawndale, NC
• Pisgah Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Casar, NC
• Big Hill Church — 3.6 mi away in Lawndale, NC
• Peasant Grove Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
• Canaan Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Casar, NC
• Zoar Church — 4.3 mi away in Casar, NC
• Carpenters Grove Church — 4.4 mi away in Lawndale, NC
• Corinth Church — 4.7 mi away in Casar, NC