Sulphur City Church

The community around Sulphur City Church

It takes 3.7 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 42.2%
• Social Isolation: 32.4%
• Depression: 31.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Poverty Rate: 18.4% (9.4–27.3%)
• Food Insecurity: 17.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
• Unemployment: 6.3% (1.9–11.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Sulphur City Church

• Nethkin Church — 1.9 mi away
• Blake Chapel — 2.8 mi away
• Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church — 3.4 mi away in Kitzmiller, MD
• Claysville Church — 3.8 mi away
• Short Run Church — 5.4 mi away
• Rehoboth Church — 5.6 mi away
• Rees Chapel United Methodist Church — 6 mi away in Keyser, WV
• Mount Zion Church — 6.2 mi away
• Sunnyside Church — 6.2 mi away
• Antioch United Methodist Church — 6.8 mi away in New Creek, WV