Myrtle Grove Church

The community around Myrtle Grove Church

It takes 4.0 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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: 33.6%
• Obesity: 39.4%
• Depression: 25.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
• Food Insecurity: 18.4%
• Diabetes: 14.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (8.4–18.7%)
• Unemployment: 7.5% (1.9–13.1%)

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

Churches near Myrtle Grove Church

• New Beginnings Community Church — 0 mi away
• Bear Branch Church — 1 mi away
• St. James Pentecostal Church — 1.7 mi away
• St John Missionary Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Rocky Point, NC
• Currie Community Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Moore's Creek Missionary Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Long Creek Church — 4.7 mi away in Burgaw, NC
• Long Creek Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Burgaw, NC
• Riley's Creek Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Rocky Point, NC
• Union Chapel — 5 mi away in Burgaw, NC