Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive Church

It takes 4.4 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 a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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.

• Social Isolation: 33.7%
• Depression: 30.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
• Diabetes: 16.7%
• Obesity: 38.3%
• Poverty Rate: 17.4% (9.8–25.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 16.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
• Unemployment: 7.2% (2.1–12.2%)

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

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• Lebanon Church — 1.8 mi away
• Point Pleasant Church — 1.9 mi away
• Vandalia United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away in Horner, WV
• Georgetown Community Church — 2.7 mi away in Weston, WV
• Simpson Chapel — 3.8 mi away
• French Creek Presbyterian Church — 4.4 mi away
• Union Hill Church — 4.4 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 5 mi away in Buckhannon, WV
• Valley Chapel — 5 mi away
• Spruce Fork Church — 5 mi away in Buckhannon, WV