Akers Church

The community around Akers Church

It takes 3.2 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 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.5%
• Diabetes: 18.0%
• Obesity: 43.6%
• Social Isolation: 37.1%
• Depression: 31.7%
• Poverty Rate: 26.4% (15.9–36.9%)
• Unemployment: 10.0% (0.0–25.1%)
• Child Poverty: 25.8% (10.3–41.3%)
• Food Insecurity: 19.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Akers Church

• Lester Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Lester, WV
• Lester First Church of God — 1.9 mi away in Lester, WV
• Lester Church of God — 2 mi away in Lester, WV
• Glen Daniels Worship Center — 2.5 mi away
• Coal Marsh Missionary Baptist — 2.8 mi away
• Fairdale Freewill Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Glen White Church of God — 3.3 mi away in Glen White, WV
• Breckenridge Missionary Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
• Shady Grove Church — 4.8 mi away
• Sophia United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away in Sophia, WV