Wet Branch Church

The community around Wet Branch Church

It takes 3.4 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 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.

• Obesity: 42.2%
• Social Isolation: 35.5%
• Depression: 31.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
• Food Insecurity: 20.8%
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.2%
• Poverty Rate: 17.7% (8.8–26.6%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.3%

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

Churches near Wet Branch Church

• Ronda Apostolic Church — 1 mi away
• Chelyan Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.9 mi away
• Church of the Nazarene — 2.1 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Good Shepherd Church — 2.4 mi away
• Little Creek Church — 2.5 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 3.1 mi away
• Gallagher Church of the Nazarene Teens — 3.2 mi away in Gallagher, WV
• Hampton Church — 3.4 mi away in East Bank, WV
• Glasgow Church of the Nazarene — 3.5 mi away in Glasgow, WV