Bushy Pond Church

The community around Bushy Pond Church

It takes 4.3 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 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: 27.5%
• Diabetes: 19.4%
• Unemployment: 14.3% (4.6–24.3%)
• Obesity: 42.5%
• Social Isolation: 32.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
• Poverty Rate: 20.4% (9.1–31.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 19.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (6.8–19.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bushy Pond Church

• Saint Johns United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
• New Beginning United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Pleasant Branch Church — 2.5 mi away
• Norway Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Willow Swamp Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Cedar Grove Church — 3.3 mi away
• Rocky Swamp Church — 3.9 mi away in Springfield, SC
• Lebanon United Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away
• Calvary Church — 4.5 mi away
• Sunshine Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Blackville, SC