Mount Gilead Church

The community around Mount Gilead Church

It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, 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.

• Diabetes: 18.1%
• Obesity: 41.3%
• Social Isolation: 34.1%
• Food Insecurity: 20.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Gilead Church

• Sunbeam Church — 1.5 mi away in Franklin, VA
• New Hope Church — 2.4 mi away
• Mount Horeb Church — 3 mi away in Franklin, VA
• Diamond Grove Church — 3.1 mi away in Franklin, VA
• Hunts Church — 3.3 mi away
• Barnes Church — 3.9 mi away
• Mount Sinai Church — 4 mi away
• St Paul United Church of Christ — 4.2 mi away in Franklin, VA
• Saint Pauls Church — 4.2 mi away in Franklin, VA
• Mount Olive Church — 4.8 mi away in Franklin, VA