Ruhama Church

The community around Ruhama Church

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Social Isolation: 35.8%
• Child Poverty: 31.9% (13.6–50.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
• Depression: 27.0%
• Food Insecurity: 24.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.8% (11.5–24.2%)
• Diabetes: 16.3%
• Obesity: 39.6%
• Poverty Rate: 21.2% (11.5–31.0%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%

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

Churches near Ruhama Church

• McNutt Memorial Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
• Walkers Chapel Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
• New Testament Holiness Church — 1.9 mi away
• Ruhama Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Celebration Church — 2.9 mi away in Collinsville, AL
• Mount Vernon Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Collinsville, AL
• Mount Zion Church — 3.2 mi away in Collinsville, AL
• Porterville Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Collinsville, AL
• Gravel Hill Church — 3.4 mi away
• Lookout Mountain Church — 3.4 mi away