Black Oak Church

The community around Black Oak Church

It takes 4.3 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 describe their own health as fair or poor, 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.

• Obesity: 45.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
• Child Poverty: 37.6% (21.4–53.8%)
• Social Isolation: 34.7%
• Depression: 29.5%
• Poverty Rate: 27.2% (18.5–35.8%)
• Diabetes: 17.4%
• Food Insecurity: 18.0%
• Unemployment: 7.1% (2.7–11.6%)

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

Churches near Black Oak Church

• Reynolds Chapel — 0.3 mi away
• Evans Chapel — 2.8 mi away
• McKendree Church — 3 mi away
• Vanceburg United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
• Christian Church — 3.1 mi away
• Vanceburg Church of God — 3.5 mi away
• Tannery Church of Christ — 4 mi away
• Holy Redeemer Catholic Church — 4 mi away
• Bevins Chapel — 4.4 mi away
• First Christian Church of GRSN — 4.5 mi away in Garrison, KY