Morning Star Church

The community around Morning Star Church

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 40.1%
• Social Isolation: 33.1%
• Food Insecurity: 20.0%
• Child Poverty: 26.5% (12.6–40.5%)
• Depression: 26.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
• Poverty Rate: 19.4% (11.5–27.3%)
• Diabetes: 14.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (7.6–21.0%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Morning Star Church

• Bethlehem Church — 1.2 mi away
• Faith Church — 1.3 mi away
• Hickory View Church — 2.5 mi away in Rocky Mount, NC
• McKendree Church — 2.8 mi away in Tarboro, NC
• Pleasant Hill Church — 3 mi away in Rocky Mount, NC
• Pyatts Chapel — 3 mi away in Elm City, NC
• Mount Galilee Church — 3.5 mi away in Rocky Mount, NC
• West Edgecombe Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Rocky Mount, NC
• Saint Mark Deliverance Church — 4.3 mi away
• Lower Town Creek Church — 4.4 mi away