Smyrna Church

The community around Smyrna Church

It takes 2.8 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 of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 40.8%
• Social Isolation: 33.1%
• Poverty Rate: 23.8% (16.0–31.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.4%
• Diabetes: 16.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
• Depression: 23.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (8.2–18.2%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%

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

Churches near Smyrna Church

• Our Lords Chapel — 2 mi away in Chadbourn, NC
• Cedar Grove Church — 2 mi away
• Jerusalem Church — 2.4 mi away in Chadbourn, NC
• Pridgen Church — 2.6 mi away
• Prong Chapel — 2.8 mi away
• Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• North Whiteside Church — 3 mi away
• Union Valley Church — 3.1 mi away
• Saint John Church — 3.2 mi away in Chadbourn, NC
• Springhill Missionary Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away