New Direction Life Ministries

The community around New Direction Life Ministries

In the few miles around this church, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

• Unemployment: 9.0% (5.4–12.6%)
• Obesity: 37.7%
• Social Isolation: 31.7%
• Depression: 25.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%
• Food Insecurity: 16.2%
• Diabetes: 14.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (6.5–16.6%)

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

Churches near New Direction Life Ministries

• Norwood First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
• The House of Prayer of Deliverance — 0.4 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Barringer Chapel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Norwood Church of God — 0.8 mi away
• Norwood Church of the Nazarene — 0.8 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 1 mi away
• Memorial Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• United Student Ministry — 1.4 mi away