Island Creek Church

The community around Island Creek Church

It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Child Poverty: 41.5% (21.9–61.1%)
• Obesity: 40.4%
• Social Isolation: 32.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
• Food Insecurity: 21.6%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Depression: 23.2%
• Poverty Rate: 17.7% (7.2–28.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (7.4–16.7%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%

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

Churches near Island Creek Church

• Bethel Church — 0.8 mi away in Greenevers, NC
• Charity Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away in Greenevers, NC
• Guiding Star Church — 1.4 mi away in Greenevers, NC
• Island Creek Church — 2 mi away
• Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Wallace, NC
• New Christian Chapel — 2.1 mi away
• New Christian Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Northeast Church — 2.5 mi away in Wallace, NC
• North East Pfwb Church — 2.5 mi away in Wallace, NC
• Oakey Plain Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Wallace, NC