Kearse Chapel

The community around Kearse Chapel

It takes 6.3 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 about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 25.0%
• Diabetes: 19.4%
• Obesity: 41.6%
• Social Isolation: 34.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
• Unemployment: 8.7% (1.7–15.7%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
• Child Poverty: 23.1% (10.2–35.9%)
• Poverty Rate: 20.0% (10.2–29.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Kearse Chapel

• Ebenezer Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Olar, SC
• Mizpah Church — 3.3 mi away in Olar, SC
• Macedonia Baptist Church — 4 mi away
• Three Mile Creek Christian Church — 4.1 mi away
• Threemile Creek Church — 4.1 mi away
• Williams Chapel Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
• Saint Johns Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
• Bethlehem Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Olar, SC
• Colston Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Bamberg, SC
• Great Saltkehatchie Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Ulmer, SC