Elcana Church

The community around Elcana Church

It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Child Poverty: 51.1% (36.1–66.2%)
• Obesity: 48.0%
• Poverty Rate: 32.9% (24.2–41.6%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.6%
• Food Insecurity: 31.0%
• Diabetes: 19.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
• Social Isolation: 35.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 23.1%
• Unemployment: 8.5% (3.3–13.7%)
• Transportation Barriers: 15.2%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Elcana Church

• Pilgrims Rest Church — 2.3 mi away in Forrest City, AR
• Mount Vernon Church — 2.5 mi away in Forrest City, AR
• Shiloh Church — 2.7 mi away
• Palestine Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 3.6 mi away
• Union Hill Church — 3.7 mi away
• Church of Christ — 3.7 mi away
• Ragland Memorial Presbyterian Church — 3.8 mi away
• Becks Spur Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Forrest City, AR
• Twin Assembly of God — 4 mi away
• Freedonia Church — 4 mi away in Forrest City, AR