Half Acre Bethel Church

The community around Half Acre Bethel Church

It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Diabetes: 18.3%
• Unemployment: 14.8% (6.6–23.0%)
• Obesity: 42.5%
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Depression: 31.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
• Food Insecurity: 18.7%
• Poverty Rate: 18.5% (11.5–25.4%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%

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

Churches near Half Acre Bethel Church

• Saint Marys Church — 1.1 mi away in Camden-on-Gauley, WV
• Little Glade Church — 1.9 mi away
• Blacks Chapel — 2 mi away
• McFarlane Chapel — 2.5 mi away
• Cottle First Church of God — 2.9 mi away in Craigsville, WV
• Glade Summit Church — 3.7 mi away
• Locust Grove Church — 3.7 mi away
• Cowen First Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Cowen, WV
• Craigsville Revival Center Pentecostal Church — 4.1 mi away
• Craigsville Church of the Nazarene — 4.1 mi away in Craigsville, WV