Gaston Valley Church

The community around Gaston Valley Church

It takes 6.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

• Obesity: 51.5%
• Child Poverty: 43.7% (27.3–60.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 35.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.7%
• Diabetes: 24.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.3%
• Social Isolation: 37.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
• Poverty Rate: 28.6% (19.6–37.5%)
• Housing Insecurity: 24.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
• Unemployment: 7.3% (1.3–13.3%)

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

Churches near Gaston Valley Church

• Shorts Church — 2.5 mi away
• Holiness Church — 3.1 mi away in Cuba, AL
• Elizabeth Church — 3.3 mi away
• Pine Grove African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 3.4 mi away in Lisman, AL
• Saint Johns Church — 3.4 mi away
• Friendship Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in York, AL
• Cokes Chapel Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away in Cuba, AL
• Ward Church — 3.7 mi away in Cuba, AL
• Church of Christ — 3.7 mi away in Cuba, AL
• Union Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 4 mi away in Cuba, AL