Gilbert Creek Church

The community around Gilbert Creek Church

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 more than a third 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: 31.3%
• Obesity: 44.6%
• Child Poverty: 36.0% (16.8–55.1%)
• Depression: 30.4%
• Poverty Rate: 26.4% (16.1–36.7%)
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Unemployment: 9.1% (2.0–16.5%)

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

Churches near Gilbert Creek Church

• Flat Creek Mission Church — 1.4 mi away
• Elisha Creek Chapel — 1.5 mi away
• Flat Creek Church — 3 mi away
• Red Bird River Church — 4.1 mi away
• Bowen Creek Church — 4.1 mi away
• Big Creek Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Big Creek, KY
• Mud Lick Church — 4.8 mi away
• Couch's Fork Church of God — 5.1 mi away in Bear Branch, KY
• Jacks Creek United Methodist Church — 5.4 mi away in Roark, KY
• Happy Hill Church — 5.9 mi away in Manchester, KY