Blessed Hope Church

The community around Blessed Hope 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults here carry depression, and about a third 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.

• Depression: 32.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
• Diabetes: 19.1%
• Obesity: 42.9%
• Social Isolation: 34.8%
• Child Poverty: 34.1% (16.4–51.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 22.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
• Unemployment: 11.4% (1.6–21.3%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.4% (11.4–31.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.2%

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

Churches near Blessed Hope Church

• Mount Carmel Church — 0.7 mi away
• Burke Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Blessed Hope Church — 1.7 mi away
• Bomont Methodist Church — 2 mi away
• Liberty Church — 2.5 mi away
• Youngs Memorial Chapel — 2.7 mi away in Clendenin, WV
• Horners Fork Missionary Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Laurel Fork Church — 3.9 mi away
• Bethel Community Church — 4 mi away
• Brawley Church — 4.2 mi away in Clendenin, WV