Potts Memorial Church

The community around Potts Memorial Church

It takes 3.8 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: 40.3%
• Social Isolation: 33.1%
• Diabetes: 15.4%
• Child Poverty: 25.4% (10.8–40.0%)
• Depression: 24.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
• Food Insecurity: 19.2%
• Poverty Rate: 17.2% (11.2–23.2%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%

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

Churches near Potts Memorial Church

• Penderlea Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
• Corinth Church — 1.4 mi away
• Rapture Church — 1.7 mi away
• Penderlea Church — 2.6 mi away
• Peniel Church — 2.9 mi away in Wallace, NC
• Newkirk Chapel — 3.3 mi away in Wallace, NC
• Mills Memorial Church — 3.4 mi away
• Canaan Church — 3.6 mi away in Wallace, NC
• Antioch Church — 4 mi away
• Willard Missionary Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away