Barker Church

The community around Barker Church

It takes 7.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Unemployment: 9.2% (3.3–15.1%)
• Obesity: 38.9%
• Social Isolation: 31.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.6%
• Diabetes: 13.7%

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

Churches near Barker Church

• Table Grove Community Church — 3.4 mi away in Table Grove, IL
• Point Pleasant United Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away
• New Philadelphia United Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away
• West Prairie Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 7.5 mi away
• Berean Christian Church — 7.7 mi away in Ipava, IL
• Pleasant Dale Church — 7.9 mi away
• Nazerene Church — 8.1 mi away in Smithfield, IL
• Vermont United Methodist Church — 8.1 mi away in Vermont, IL
• Vermont Christian Church — 8.3 mi away in Vermont, IL
• Brock United Methodist Church — 8.4 mi away in Smithfield, IL