Welch Church

The community around Welch Church

It takes 4.4 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Obesity: 41.0%
• Child Poverty: 35.7% (18.3–53.1%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
• Depression: 28.5%
• Poverty Rate: 26.8% (18.3–35.3%)
• Diabetes: 17.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Welch Church

• Korea Church of God — 1.7 mi away in Wellington, KY
• Covenant of Grace Seventh Day Baptist — 2 mi away in Wellington, KY
• Korea Church of God — 2 mi away in Wellington, KY
• Botts Christian Church — 2.1 mi away
• Kendrick Ridge Church — 2.9 mi away in Frenchburg, KY
• Dan Ridge Church — 3 mi away in Wellington, KY
• Korea Church of God — 3.5 mi away in Wellington, KY
• Big Woods Community Church — 3.7 mi away in Wellington, KY
• Mariba First Church of God — 3.8 mi away in Frenchburg, KY
• Mariba Church of God — 4.1 mi away in Frenchburg, KY