Powell Mountain Church

The community around Powell Mountain Church

It takes 5.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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.

• Social Isolation: 33.8%
• Depression: 30.5%
• Diabetes: 15.6%
• Unemployment: 10.1% (1.6–18.7%)
• Obesity: 39.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%

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

Churches near Powell Mountain Church

• Big Union Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Birch River Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
• Little Creek Union Church — 3.9 mi away in Summersville, WV
• Widen Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
• New Hope Church — 4.1 mi away
• Muddlety United Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away in Summersville, WV
• Birch River Union Church — 5.7 mi away
• Walnut Grove United Methodist Church — 5.7 mi away
• Beulah Church — 5.8 mi away in Summersville, WV
• Cox Cemetery Church — 5.9 mi away