Rice Bend Church

The community around Rice Bend Church

It takes 5.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, 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.

• Depression: 27.9%
• Diabetes: 15.1%
• Obesity: 38.0%
• Social Isolation: 30.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Rice Bend Church

• Shady Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Higgins Chapel — 2.1 mi away
• Lower Rice Creek Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Pleasant Valley Missionary Church — 2.4 mi away in Mars Hill, NC
• Roseville Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Little Creek Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Mars Hill, NC
• Flag Pond Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Sweetwater Church of God — 3.5 mi away
• Laurel Chapel Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Mars Hill, NC
• Laurel Bend Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Mars Hill, NC