Rising Star Church
Rising Star Church is a church in Emporia, VA 23847. It is one of 71 churches in Emporia.
Emporia, VA, 23847Find Rising Star Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Rising Star Church
It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 45.0%
- Food Insecurity: 25.9%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.9%
- Poverty Rate: 16.3% (9.0–23.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (2.3–12.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Rising Star Church
- Mount Vernon Church — 1.5 mi away
- Independence Church — 2.1 mi away
- Hobbs Chapel — 3.2 mi away in Lawrenceville, VA
- Rocky Mount Church — 4 mi away
- Poplar Mt Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Lawrenceville, VA
- Macedonia Church — 4.3 mi away
- Saint Thomas Church — 4.7 mi away in Freeman, VA
- Popular Mount Church — 4.7 mi away in Lawrenceville, VA
- New Hope RZUA Church — 4.8 mi away in Freeman, VA
- New Hope Zion Church — 4.8 mi away in Freeman, VA