Black Ground Church

The community around Black Ground Church

It takes 3.8 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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: 41.1%
• Child Poverty: 35.7% (19.3–52.1%)
• Social Isolation: 35.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
• Food Insecurity: 22.0%
• Diabetes: 16.4%
• Depression: 25.0%
• Poverty Rate: 20.1% (11.5–28.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Black Ground Church

• Harmony Church — 2.1 mi away in Courtland, AL
• Harmony Church — 2.6 mi away in Courtland, AL
• Providence Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Liberty Church — 2.8 mi away
• Prayer Tabernacle — 3.1 mi away
• The Church of God — 3.1 mi away
• Calvary Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Cave Springs Freewill Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Town Creek Number One Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Donald Church — 3.4 mi away