Sassafras Grove Church

The community around Sassafras Grove Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.

• Food Insecurity: 25.6%
• Obesity: 43.1%
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Child Poverty: 31.0% (13.2–48.8%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
• Poverty Rate: 24.8% (17.5–32.2%)
• Diabetes: 17.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
• Depression: 23.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (7.6–17.1%)

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

Churches near Sassafras Grove Church

• Community Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Purley United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
• Caswell Bible Fellowship — 2.8 mi away in Blanch, NC
• Covenant Reformed Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Providence, NC
• Union Church — 3 mi away
• Providence Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Providence, NC
• Ebenzer Church — 3.6 mi away in Providence, NC
• Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Providence, NC
• Freedom For Living Ministries — 3.6 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away