Laird Church

The community around Laird Church

It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 40.8%
• Social Isolation: 34.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
• Food Insecurity: 16.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.7% (10.5–18.9%)
• Diabetes: 13.4%

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

Churches near Laird Church

• Long Prairie Church — 2.2 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 2.6 mi away in Bluford, IL
• Belle Rive Missionary Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Belle Rive, IL
• Mount Zion Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Wayne City, IL
• Salem Church — 3.6 mi away in Wayne City, IL
• Bluford Church of God — 4.6 mi away in Bluford, IL
• First Baptist Church of Bluford — 4.6 mi away in Bluford, IL
• Saint John Nepomucene Catholic Chapel — 4.7 mi away in Dahlgren, IL
• Dahlgren Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Dahlgren, IL
• Otterbein United Methodist Church — 4.9 mi away in Bluford, IL