Fuson Chapel

The community around Fuson Chapel

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
• Obesity: 45.0%
• Child Poverty: 40.0% (21.7–58.4%)
• Depression: 28.8%
• Poverty Rate: 26.7% (18.1–35.4%)
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Unemployment: 7.9% (2.8–13.3%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Fuson Chapel

• Salem Number 2 Church — 1.6 mi away
• Salem Church — 1.9 mi away
• Harmony Church — 1.9 mi away
• Moss Chapel — 3.8 mi away
• White Church — 3.8 mi away
• Faith Temple Church — 4.4 mi away in Middlesboro, KY
• Old Cannon Creek Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
• Wasioto Church — 4.7 mi away
• West Pineville Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
• Bethel Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away