Ovapa Church

The community around Ovapa Church

It takes 5.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about 1 in 5 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.

• Diabetes: 18.2%
• Obesity: 41.3%
• Social Isolation: 34.3%
• Depression: 31.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
• Unemployment: 10.2% (1.4–19.0%)
• Child Poverty: 29.1% (12.7–45.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 19.3%
• Poverty Rate: 16.6% (7.9–25.2%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Ovapa Church

• Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Valley Ridge United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Horners Fork Missionary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Trinity Missionary Baptist — 2.3 mi away in Maysel, WV
• White Pilgrim Church — 2.5 mi away
• Goodwill Church — 2.6 mi away
• Laurel Fork Church — 2.8 mi away
• Risen Lord Catholic Church — 2.9 mi away in Maysel, WV
• Wallback United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Church — 2.9 mi away