Kemp Church

The community around Kemp Church

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Obesity: 43.3%
• Child Poverty: 37.3% (19.5–55.0%)
• Social Isolation: 34.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
• Poverty Rate: 23.9% (13.9–33.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 23.7%
• Diabetes: 17.7%
• Depression: 23.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%

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

Churches near Kemp Church

• Mt Olive AME Zion Church — 0.7 mi away
• Open Door Ministries of Elizabethtown — 0.9 mi away
• Friendly Riverside Church — 1 mi away
• Fellowship Church — 1.2 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 1.4 mi away
• Riverside Church — 2.2 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• Mount Calvary Church — 2.2 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• Foundation Church — 2.8 mi away
• Trinity Methodist Church — 3 mi away
• Mt. Zion A.M.E Zion — 3.1 mi away