Middle Fork Church

The community around Middle Fork Church

It takes 6.2 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 describe their own health as fair or poor, 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: 45.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
• Child Poverty: 34.9% (15.8–54.1%)
• Depression: 30.3%
• Poverty Rate: 26.5% (13.0–40.0%)
• Diabetes: 17.8%
• Unemployment: 6.2% (0.1–15.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Middle Fork Church

• Warbranch Church — 2 mi away
• Lower Beech Fork Church — 2.7 mi away
• Bowen Creek Church — 3.2 mi away
• Beech Fork United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away
• Jacks Creek United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away in Roark, KY
• Phillips Fork Church — 4.9 mi away
• Grassy Branch Church — 4.9 mi away
• Bowen Creek Church — 5.3 mi away
• Essie Christian and Missionary Alliance Church — 5.5 mi away in Stinnett, KY
• Red Bird River Church — 6.3 mi away