Spencer Bend Church

The community around Spencer Bend 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 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live 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.

• Child Poverty: 54.6% (35.9–73.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
• Poverty Rate: 31.3% (20.6–41.9%)
• Diabetes: 18.3%
• Unemployment: 12.4% (3.9–21.0%)
• Obesity: 43.3%
• Depression: 29.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Spencer Bend Church

• New Antioch Church — 2.9 mi away in Campton, KY
• Mary Church of Christ — 3.8 mi away in Campton, KY
• Union Church — 4 mi away in Beattyville, KY
• Old Time Chapel — 4.1 mi away in Campton, KY
• New Springs Church — 4.3 mi away in Beattyville, KY
• Hour of Harvest Church — 4.4 mi away in Campton, KY
• Gum Springs Bible Church — 4.8 mi away in Beattyville, KY
• Blanche Haddix Church — 4.8 mi away
• Spring Branch Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Campton, KY
• Campton Church of Christ — 5.2 mi away in Campton, KY