Gordons Chapel

The community around Gordons Chapel

It takes 3.2 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: 42.3%
• Child Poverty: 35.8% (17.0–54.7%)
• Social Isolation: 34.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
• Food Insecurity: 23.1%
• Diabetes: 15.8%
• Unemployment: 9.6% (4.7–14.5%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
• Depression: 25.7%
• Poverty Rate: 21.9% (13.0–30.8%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%

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

Churches near Gordons Chapel

• Hopewell Church — 1.5 mi away
• Hickory Hill Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Pleasant Hill Church — 1.9 mi away
• Overcup New Life Free Will Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Lonoke Baptist Church-Morrilton, AR — 2.3 mi away
• Lonoke Church — 2.8 mi away
• Morrilton Baptist Temple — 2.9 mi away
• Union Church of Morrilton — 3.3 mi away
• Community Transformation Church Morrilton — 3.6 mi away
• Hattieville Family Worship Center — 3.7 mi away in Hattieville, AR