Barnes Church

The community around Barnes Church

It takes 5.4 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 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: 40.4%
• Social Isolation: 33.9%
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.3%
• Food Insecurity: 18.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.4%
• Unemployment: 6.7% (2.3–11.3%)

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

Churches near Barnes Church

• Hunts Church — 1.2 mi away
• Newsoms Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Newsoms, VA
• Mt Tabor Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away in Newsoms, VA
• Oak Grove Church — 3.3 mi away
• Mount Gilead Church — 3.9 mi away
• Mount Horeb Church — 4.1 mi away in Franklin, VA
• Sunbeam Church — 4.2 mi away in Franklin, VA
• New Bethel Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Boykins, VA
• Mount Sinai Church — 5 mi away
• Boykins United Methodist Church — 5.1 mi away in Boykins, VA