Bodka Valley Church

The community around Bodka Valley Church

It takes 7.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.

• Child Poverty: 56.0%
• Obesity: 46.8%
• Social Isolation: 40.4%
• Food Insecurity: 34.2%
• Poverty Rate: 32.3% (23.3–41.2%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
• Diabetes: 18.8%
• Unemployment: 14.4% (5.7–23.3%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 24.4%
• Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (10.9–21.8%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%

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

Churches near Bodka Valley Church

• Union Hall Church — 2 mi away
• Providence Church — 2.5 mi away
• Mary Winston Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Geiger, AL
• Blue Chapel — 4.3 mi away in Scooba, MS
• Sunny Mount Giles Church — 4.7 mi away
• Chapel In the Pines — 5 mi away in Scooba, MS
• Jerusalem Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Geiger, AL
• Sunflower Church — 6 mi away
• Kemper Church — 6.2 mi away
• Dawsey Church — 6.4 mi away in Geiger, AL