Mount Moriah Church

The community around Mount Moriah 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 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 49.7%
• Child Poverty: 45.3% (28.9–61.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 36.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.2%
• Poverty Rate: 30.0% (22.4–37.6%)
• Diabetes: 20.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
• Social Isolation: 34.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 24.9%
• Transportation Barriers: 20.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (10.7–21.8%)
• Unemployment: 9.6% (3.2–15.9%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
• Depression: 23.8%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%

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

Churches near Mount Moriah Church

• Beulah Church — 0.4 mi away in Rowland, NC
• Gospel Tabernacle — 0.7 mi away in Rowland, NC
• Willard’s Chapel Church — 2.1 mi away in Rowland, NC
• Midway Presbyterian Church — 2.1 mi away in Raemon, NC
• Amys Chapel — 2.4 mi away
• Mount Hebron Church — 2.5 mi away
• Salem Church — 2.6 mi away in Rowland, NC
• Pentecostal Church of Christ — 2.8 mi away in Rowland, NC
• Little Zion Freewill Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Beauty Spot Church — 3.4 mi away in Rowland, NC