Big River Church

The community around Big River Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up 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.

• Child Poverty: 40.9% (22.4–59.4%)
• Obesity: 41.7%
• Social Isolation: 32.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
• Diabetes: 15.4%
• Depression: 26.8%
• Poverty Rate: 21.6% (13.1–30.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.9%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (6.7–16.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Big River Church

• Stoney Point Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• Hopewell Church of God — 2.5 mi away
• Hopewell Union Church — 2.5 mi away
• Unity Southern Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Irondale — 3 mi away in Irondale, MO
• Hopewell Assembly Of God Church — 3.5 mi away
• The River Worship Centre — 3.7 mi away in Leadwood, MO
• Providence Church — 4.5 mi away in Bonne Terre, MO
• Pleasant Valley Chapel — 4.8 mi away
• Providence Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Bonne Terre, MO