Bear Marsh Church

The community around Bear Marsh Church

It takes 3.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Child Poverty: 33.8% (19.9–50.3%)
• Social Isolation: 33.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
• Food Insecurity: 21.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.5% (11.6–25.4%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.4%
• Obesity: 39.0%
• Depression: 24.0%
• Poverty Rate: 20.3% (13.4–27.2%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
• Diabetes: 14.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%

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

Churches near Bear Marsh Church

• Saint Johns Church — 1 mi away
• Stanford Presbyterian Church — 1.9 mi away
• Sanford Church — 1.9 mi away
• Brocks Chapel — 3 mi away
• Saint Lukes Church — 3.5 mi away
• St Luke MB Church — 3.5 mi away
• Union Church — 3.5 mi away
• Red Hill Church — 3.6 mi away in Faison, NC
• Rones Methodist Chapel — 3.7 mi away
• Kingdom Ministries — 3.9 mi away in Calypso, NC