Sheeptown Church of God

The community around Sheeptown Church of God

It takes 3.3 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 say they are socially isolated, 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: 43.4%
• Social Isolation: 33.9%
• Child Poverty: 30.5% (13.5–47.5%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
• Depression: 27.2%
• Poverty Rate: 22.2% (12.9–31.6%)
• Diabetes: 17.0%
• Food Insecurity: 18.3%
• Unemployment: 6.3% (1.4–11.3%)

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

Churches near Sheeptown Church of God

• Beulah Church — 0.5 mi away
• Austinville Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Monarat Church — 1.9 mi away
• Forest Church — 2.3 mi away
• Fairview Church — 2.4 mi away
• Ivanhoe Pentecostal Holiness Church — 2.4 mi away in Ivanhoe, VA
• Mount Olivet Church — 2.7 mi away
• Oak Grove Christian Church — 2.7 mi away in Galax, VA
• Austinville Pentecostal Holiness Church — 2.7 mi away in Max Meadows, VA
• Resurrected Grace Worship Center — 2.7 mi away in Austinville, VA