Center Church

The community around Center 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 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: 41.7%
• Child Poverty: 39.7% (20.5–58.9%)
• Social Isolation: 33.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
• Poverty Rate: 24.0% (15.3–32.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.7%
• Diabetes: 16.2%
• Depression: 25.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
• Unemployment: 6.5% (0.8–12.1%)

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

Churches near Center Church

• Temple Church — 1.3 mi away
• Lennons Crossroads Church — 1.6 mi away
• Pine Grove Church — 2.5 mi away
• New Center Church — 2.8 mi away in Bladenboro, NC
• Grace Church — 2.8 mi away in Bladenboro, NC
• Mount Galled Church — 3.1 mi away in Bladenboro, NC
• Galeed Church — 3.2 mi away in Bladenboro, NC
• Mount Calvary Church — 3.4 mi away in Clarkton, NC
• Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Whiteville, NC
• First Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Bladenboro, NC