Beauty For Ashes

The community around Beauty For Ashes

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

• Obesity: 45.3%
• Food Insecurity: 28.0%
• Social Isolation: 39.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
• Housing Insecurity: 22.2%
• Diabetes: 16.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
• Poverty Rate: 17.1% (9.4–24.9%)
• Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (6.8–18.4%)

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

Churches near Beauty For Ashes

• The Word Works Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
• Newport News Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Restoration Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
• The Well Church Of Virginia — 0.7 mi away
• River Of Life Christian Church — 0.8 mi away
• Los Pentecostales de la Peninsula — 0.8 mi away
• First Baptist Church Morrison — 0.8 mi away
• Hampton Roads Church - Peninsula — 0.8 mi away
• Nueva Vida Centro Cristiano — 0.9 mi away
• Crosswalk Church - Newport News — 0.9 mi away