Shady Grove Church

The community around Shady Grove Church

It takes 2.6 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 40.4%
• Social Isolation: 38.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
• Food Insecurity: 20.7%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.2% (8.7–21.7%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
• Depression: 25.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.3%
• Unemployment: 6.8% (0.3–13.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Shady Grove Church

• Brandonville United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away in Brandonville, WV
• Mission: Take Back Ministries — 2 mi away in Bruceton Mills, WV
• Clifton Mills Union Church — 2.1 mi away
• Salem Church of the Brethren — 2.2 mi away
• Bruceton United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Locust Grove United Methodist Church — 3 mi away
• Hazelton Union Church — 3.6 mi away
• Canaan Church — 4 mi away
• Little Sandy Nazarene Church — 4.2 mi away
• Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church — 4.2 mi away