Voorhees College Saint Philips Chapel

The community around Voorhees College Saint Philips Chapel

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 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 34.4%
• Diabetes: 19.3%
• Unemployment: 15.0% (6.8–23.5%)
• Obesity: 43.8%
• Social Isolation: 40.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 24.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.8% (12.5–23.1%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
• Poverty Rate: 21.8% (12.5–31.0%)
• Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1% (11.3–19.8%)

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

Churches near Voorhees College Saint Philips Chapel

• Lighthouse Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Progressive Church of Denmark — 1.1 mi away
• Bethel Ame Church — 1.1 mi away
• Rome Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Anointing of Glory Ministry — 1.4 mi away
• Springtown Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
• Faith Ministry — 1.4 mi away
• Victory Temple Church of God I — 1.4 mi away
• Central Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away