Martins Prairie Church

The community around Martins Prairie Church

It takes 4.7 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: 41.2%
• Social Isolation: 33.4%
• Child Poverty: 27.8% (12.9–42.7%)
• Depression: 24.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
• Poverty Rate: 17.4% (10.4–24.3%)
• Food Insecurity: 16.8%
• Diabetes: 13.4%
• Unemployment: 6.6% (2.2–11.1%)

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

Churches near Martins Prairie Church

• Richwoods Church — 2.5 mi away
• East Union Church — 3.3 mi away in Murrayville, IL
• Emmanuel Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
• Manchester Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Manchester, IL
• First Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
• House of Restoration — 4.8 mi away
• New Life Church — 6.5 mi away in White Hall, IL
• Pleasant Point Church — 6.6 mi away in Greenfield, IL
• Souls Harbor Apostolic Church — 6.8 mi away in White Hall, IL
• Murrayville Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away in Murrayville, IL