Legion Memorial Church

The community around Legion Memorial Church

It takes 2.5 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 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.

• Obesity: 42.4%
• Social Isolation: 35.0%
• Diabetes: 15.0%
• Child Poverty: 27.7% (15.5–40.9%)
• Depression: 26.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.2%

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

Churches near Legion Memorial Church

• Blue Springs Church — 0.8 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.4 mi away
• Abundant Life Apostolic Church — 1.4 mi away
• Spirit & Truth Worship Center — 1.6 mi away
• East Stone Gap Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away in East Stone Gap, VA
• Cracker Neck Church — 2.3 mi away
• East Stone Gap Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• Valley Chapel — 2.4 mi away
• Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 2.8 mi away
• New Hope Assembly of God — 3.2 mi away