Mary Lou Church

The community around Mary Lou Church

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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: 40.5%
• Social Isolation: 34.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
• Depression: 29.7%
• Diabetes: 18.0%
• Poverty Rate: 21.5% (9.7–33.4%)
• Food Insecurity: 19.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mary Lou Church

• Bee Branch Church — 2.8 mi away
• Little Flock Church — 3.9 mi away
• North Side Church — 3.9 mi away
• Bee Run Church — 4.4 mi away
• Pine Grove Church Of Christ — 4.8 mi away in Jolo, WV
• Mountain Home Church — 4.8 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 5 mi away
• Pine Grove Church — 5.2 mi away
• Blackey Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Hurley, VA
• Pilgrim Rest Church — 6.4 mi away