Elisha Creek Chapel

The community around Elisha Creek Chapel

It takes 4.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
• Obesity: 45.0%
• Child Poverty: 36.3% (17.2–55.5%)
• Depression: 30.5%
• Poverty Rate: 26.2% (15.9–36.6%)
• Diabetes: 17.0%
• Unemployment: 7.4% (1.3–13.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Elisha Creek Chapel

• Flat Creek Mission Church — 1.3 mi away
• Gilbert Creek Church — 1.5 mi away
• Bowen Creek Church — 2.7 mi away
• Red Bird River Church — 3.2 mi away
• Flat Creek Church — 3.5 mi away
• Jacks Creek United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away in Roark, KY
• Bowen Creek Church — 4.7 mi away
• Essie Christian and Missionary Alliance Church — 4.8 mi away in Stinnett, KY
• Mud Lick Church — 5.3 mi away
• Grassy Branch Church — 5.4 mi away