Black Oak Church

The community around Black Oak Church

It takes 4.4 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 of the children here are growing up 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.

• Obesity: 40.2%
• Social Isolation: 33.3%
• Child Poverty: 28.6% (11.1–46.0%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.6%
• Food Insecurity: 16.2%
• Diabetes: 13.1%

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

Churches near Black Oak Church

• First Lutheran Church — 2.3 mi away
• Chadwick Evangelical Free Church — 2.4 mi away
• Hope United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Trinity Lutheran Church — 2.9 mi away in Mount Carroll, IL
• Fairhaven United Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away
• Mount Carroll Church of God — 5.6 mi away in Mount Carroll, IL
• SS John and Catherine Catholic Church — 6.1 mi away in Mt Carroll, IL
• First Evangelical Lutheran Church — 6.2 mi away in Mount Carroll, IL
• Mount Carroll United Methodist Church — 6.2 mi away in Mount Carroll, IL
• First Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away in Mount Carroll, IL