Guiding Star Church

The community around Guiding Star 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: 42.4%
• Child Poverty: 39.2% (20.0–58.3%)
• Social Isolation: 33.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
• Food Insecurity: 25.0%
• Diabetes: 17.7%
• Depression: 23.4%
• Poverty Rate: 19.7% (9.4–30.2%)
• Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (8.0–17.2%)

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

Churches near Guiding Star Church

• Charity Methodist Church — 1 mi away
• Bethel Church — 1.1 mi away
• New Christian Chapel — 1.4 mi away in Rose Hill, NC
• Island Creek Church — 1.4 mi away in Rose Hill, NC
• New Christian Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Rose Hill, NC
• Island Creek Church — 2.2 mi away in Rose Hill, NC
• Elder Chapel — 3.1 mi away in Rose Hill, NC
• Northeast Church — 3.4 mi away in Wallace, NC
• North East Pfwb Church — 3.4 mi away in Wallace, NC
• Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Wallace, NC