Bear Thicket Church

The community around Bear Thicket Church

It takes 4.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 25.7%
• Obesity: 38.6%
• Social Isolation: 30.8%
• Depression: 25.8%
• Poverty Rate: 20.8% (11.7–29.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 16.8%
• Diabetes: 14.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%
• Unemployment: 7.0% (2.2–11.8%)

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

Churches near Bear Thicket Church

• Salem Church — 1.9 mi away in Phillipsburg, MO
• Morgan Southern Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Liberty Church — 3.5 mi away in Phillipsburg, MO
• Phillipsburg Church — 3.5 mi away in Phillipsburg, MO
• Phillipsburg Assembly of God — 3.6 mi away in Phillipsburg, MO
• Washington Church — 3.9 mi away in Lebanon, MO
• The Church Of Stormageddon — 3.9 mi away in Lebanon, MO
• White Oak Pond Church — 3.9 mi away in Lebanon, MO
• S. Hwy. Five church of Christ — 4 mi away in Lebanon, MO
• Phillipsburg Christian Church — 4.4 mi away in Phillipsburg, MO