Saint Mary's Help of Christian's Parish

Saint Mary's Help of Christian's Parish is a Catholic church at 818 McGowan Road in Shelby, NC 28152. It is one of 135 churches in Shelby.

818 McGowan Road, Shelby, NC, 28152

Phone: +1-704-487-7697 · Website: https://saintmaryshelby.org/

Saint Mary's Help of Christian's Parish is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 274 congregations of the Catholic family gather across North Carolina — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.

From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.

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The community around Saint Mary's Help of Christian's Parish

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 33.3%
  • Obesity: 38.4%
  • Depression: 24.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 17.0%
  • Diabetes: 13.4%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Shelby city is served by 32 churches — about one congregation for every 570 residents.

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