Gaston Community Church

The community around Gaston Community Church

It takes 8.4 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Obesity: 41.6%
• Social Isolation: 32.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
• Diabetes: 16.4%
• Child Poverty: 26.6% (10.5–42.7%)
• Depression: 25.6%
• Poverty Rate: 21.3% (14.7–28.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 17.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (7.5–15.2%)
• Unemployment: 7.2% (2.7–11.7%)

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

Churches near Gaston Community Church

• Providence Church — 3.2 mi away in Norman, AR
• Murphy Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in Norman, AR
• Mount Olive Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Oden, AR
• Midway Pentecostal Church — 4.4 mi away
• Oden United Methodist Church — 4.9 mi away in Oden, AR
• Oden United Methodist Church — 5 mi away in Oden, AR
• Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Oden, AR
• Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Oden, AR
• Oden First Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Oden, AR
• Oden First Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Oden, AR