Laurel Fork Missionary Baptist Church

Laurel Fork Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in WV 25088.

WV, 25088

Laurel Fork Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 771 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West Virginia — 71,418 across the United States on The Church Map.

Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.

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The community around Laurel Fork Missionary Baptist Church

It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of adults here carry depression, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.3%
  • Depression: 32.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 32.0% (20.2–43.8%)
  • Diabetes: 19.8%
  • Obesity: 43.3%
  • Social Isolation: 35.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 23.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
  • Unemployment: 9.7% (2.6–16.9%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.7%

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

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