Bales Chapel

The community around Bales Chapel

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults here carry depression, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 41.5%
• Depression: 30.2%
• Child Poverty: 30.2% (13.1–47.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
• Diabetes: 15.3%
• Poverty Rate: 16.7% (9.2–24.1%)

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

Churches near Bales Chapel

• Union Freewill Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• New Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 2.1 mi away
• Hardin Chapel — 2.2 mi away
• Carter's Station United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
• U Turn For Christ Tennessee — 2.5 mi away
• Mount Vernon Church — 2.8 mi away
• Ottway United Methodist Church — 3 mi away
• Greene Hills Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Carter Chapel — 3.1 mi away
• Old Time Church — 3.3 mi away