Gilead Church

The community around Gilead Church

It takes 2.5 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 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.

• Obesity: 40.7%
• Social Isolation: 33.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
• Depression: 23.9%
• Poverty Rate: 21.0% (13.4–28.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.3%
• Diabetes: 14.3%

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

Churches near Gilead Church

• Greenview Christian Church — 1.9 mi away
• Hickory Hill Church — 2 mi away
• Fouts Church — 2.1 mi away
• Crossroads Church — 2.5 mi away
• Wamac Missionary Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Wamac, IL
• Fifteenth Street Church of God — 3 mi away
• New Testment Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Blaze Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 3.5 mi away
• First Apostolic Church — 3.5 mi away