Lower Town Creek Church

The community around Lower Town Creek Church

It takes 2.7 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 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.

• Obesity: 41.4%
• Social Isolation: 33.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
• Food Insecurity: 22.1%
• Diabetes: 16.3%
• Child Poverty: 26.9% (12.9–41.0%)
• Depression: 24.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
• Unemployment: 7.7% (2.4–12.9%)

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

Churches near Lower Town Creek Church

• Saint Mark Deliverance Church — 0.9 mi away
• Pinetops Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Pinetops Presbyterian Church — 1.8 mi away
• Greater Word of Life Ministries — 1.9 mi away
• Morning Star Holy Church — 2 mi away
• Deliverance Temple — 2 mi away
• Pines Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 2.4 mi away
• Living Waters Ministries Community Church — 2.9 mi away
• casa de restauracion — 3 mi away in Macclesfield, NC