Benedict Church

The community around Benedict Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 7 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 more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 70.8% (51.3–90.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
• Obesity: 41.3%
• Depression: 31.4%
• Poverty Rate: 28.5% (14.5–42.5%)
• Diabetes: 17.2%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Benedict Church

• Prater Creek Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Banner, KY
• Endicott Church — 2.7 mi away
• Pleasant Home Church — 3.5 mi away
• Wesley United Methodist — 3.5 mi away
• Saint Martha Catholic Church — 3.5 mi away
• Prestonsburg Church of Christ — 3.5 mi away
• Warehouse Church — 3.6 mi away
• The Branch — 3.7 mi away
• Corn Fork Church — 3.8 mi away
• New Life Church — 3.8 mi away