Big Pawpaw Church

The community around Big Pawpaw 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 3 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Child Poverty: 37.6% (20.4–54.9%)
• Social Isolation: 34.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
• Depression: 27.3%
• Poverty Rate: 22.8% (14.3–31.2%)
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Obesity: 39.3%
• Food Insecurity: 18.6%

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

Churches near Big Pawpaw Church

• Bear Branch Church — 3.3 mi away
• Sandlick Presbyterian Church — 3.9 mi away in Haysi, VA
• Sand Lick Church — 3.9 mi away
• Big Fox Church — 4 mi away
• Pilgrims Home Church — 4.1 mi away in Grundy, VA
• Shumac Church — 4.1 mi away in Haysi, VA
• Russell Prater Church — 4.4 mi away in Haysi, VA
• Counts Church — 4.5 mi away in Haysi, VA
• Little Martha Church — 4.7 mi away
• Dickenson First Presbyterian Church — 5.5 mi away in Haysi, VA