Saint Mark Church

The community around Saint Mark Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, 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.

• Diabetes: 18.0%
• Obesity: 42.5%
• Social Isolation: 34.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
• Food Insecurity: 24.4%
• Depression: 23.6%
• Child Poverty: 22.1% (6.7–37.6%)
• Poverty Rate: 18.4% (11.9–25.0%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%

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

Churches near Saint Mark Church

• Liberty Church — 0.6 mi away
• New Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
• Bethel Church — 1.4 mi away
• East Lake City Holiness Church — 1.5 mi away
• Brown Chapel — 2.3 mi away
• Nineveh Church — 2.7 mi away
• Stone Chapel — 3.1 mi away in Pamplico, SC
• Saint John Church — 3.3 mi away in Pamplico, SC
• Bethlehem Church — 3.4 mi away
• Paran Church — 3.4 mi away