Jewel Church

The community around Jewel Church

It takes 2.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line, 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.

• Poverty Rate: 37.6%
• Obesity: 40.4%
• Social Isolation: 33.6%
• Depression: 29.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
• Food Insecurity: 22.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.9%

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

Churches near Jewel Church

• Bear Creek Church — 1 mi away
• Mulberry Church — 1.6 mi away
• Hazel Creek Freewill Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 3.2 mi away
• St Rose Catholic Church — 3.6 mi away in Novinger, MO
• Hazel Creek Union Church — 3.8 mi away
• West Chariton Fellowship — 3.9 mi away in Novinger, MO
• Refuge Community Church — 4 mi away
• Southside Baptist Church — 4 mi away
• Life Church of Kirksville — 4 mi away