Palestine Church

The community around Palestine Church

It takes 3.5 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 adults here carry depression. 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: 43.3%
• Social Isolation: 34.3%
• Depression: 30.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
• Diabetes: 17.7%
• Unemployment: 8.4% (2.4–14.4%)
• Poverty Rate: 17.7% (9.5–25.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 17.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%

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

Churches near Palestine Church

• Friendship Church — 2.2 mi away in New Martinsville, WV
• Ridge Church — 2.3 mi away in New Martinsville, WV
• Antioch Church — 2.6 mi away
• Apostolic Christian Church — 2.8 mi away in New Martinsville, WV
• Proctor Church of Christ — 3.9 mi away in Proctor, WV
• Hemlock Church — 4.1 mi away in New Martinsville, WV
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 4.4 mi away in New Martinsville, WV
• Immanuel Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in New Martinsville, WV
• Steelton Church of Christ — 4.5 mi away in New Martinsville, WV
• Fairview Christian Church — 4.6 mi away