Matthews Chapel

The community around Matthews Chapel

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

• Obesity: 42.3%
• Social Isolation: 34.6%
• Child Poverty: 32.0% (16.3–47.7%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
• Food Insecurity: 22.9%
• Diabetes: 17.6%
• Unemployment: 10.6% (5.2–16.1%)
• Depression: 24.4%
• Poverty Rate: 21.8% (14.0–29.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (6.9–16.1%)

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

Churches near Matthews Chapel

• Reedy Creek Church — 1.2 mi away
• Living Word Ministries Disciple Training Center — 1.2 mi away
• Fletcher Grove Church — 1.4 mi away in McColl, SC
• Community Missionary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Amen Alleluia Church — 1.7 mi away
• Stewartsville Church — 1.9 mi away
• Sunset Church — 2 mi away
• Trinity Pentecostal Holiness Church — 2 mi away
• Friendship Church — 2.2 mi away in McColl, SC
• Trinity Church — 2.5 mi away