John Knox Presbyterian Church
John Knox Presbyterian Church is a church in Shelby, NC 28152. It is one of 135 churches in Shelby.
Shelby, NC, 28152John Knox Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 637 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across North Carolina — 11,342 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around John Knox Presbyterian Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 33.8%
- Food Insecurity: 22.2%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Depression: 25.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Child Poverty: 23.4% (10.0–36.8%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.3% (12.6–30.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Shelby city is served by 32 churches — about one congregation for every 570 residents.
Churches near John Knox Presbyterian Church
- Westview Church — 0.2 mi away
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Davidson Memorial Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Maranatha Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Westwood Heights Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Shelby First Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- Shelby church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- God Chosen Ministry — 0.8 mi away
- Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- Way Of The Cross Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Shelby Presbyterian Church — 1.5 mi away
- Ryburn Memorial Presbyterian Church — 2.9 mi away
- Shiloh Presbyterian Church — 10.7 mi away in Grover, NC
- Ellenboro Presbyterian Church — 11.5 mi away in Ellenboro, NC
- Boyce Memorial Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church — 11.9 mi away in Kings Mountain, NC
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