Red Oak Church

The community around Red Oak Church

It takes 5.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Social Isolation: 33.1%
• Child Poverty: 31.2% (15.1–47.3%)
• Obesity: 38.2%
• Depression: 25.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
• Poverty Rate: 17.1% (10.2–24.0%)
• Diabetes: 14.7%

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

Churches near Red Oak Church

• North Holston Church — 2.7 mi away
• Sharon Church — 3.4 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.7 mi away in Wytheville, VA
• Central Church — 4.4 mi away in Tazewell, VA
• Bethany Church — 4.5 mi away
• Stony Fork Church — 5.1 mi away in Wytheville, VA
• Mount Victory Church — 5.6 mi away
• Trinity Church — 6.1 mi away in Bland, VA
• Corinth Church — 6.9 mi away in Rural Retreat, VA
• Marvin Church — 7 mi away in Rural Retreat, VA