Barks Church

The community around Barks Church

It takes 5.9 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: 40.5% (21.6–59.4%)
• Obesity: 41.2%
• Social Isolation: 32.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
• Depression: 27.1%
• Poverty Rate: 23.8% (15.3–32.3%)
• Diabetes: 15.6%
• Food Insecurity: 19.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
• Unemployment: 7.5% (1.9–13.0%)

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

Churches near Barks Church

• El Bethel Church — 2.1 mi away
• Coon Island Pentecostal Church — 2.4 mi away
• Friendship Church — 2.5 mi away
• New Morning Star Church — 2.5 mi away
• Friendship Church — 3.5 mi away
• Saint Margarite Mary Church — 3.6 mi away
• Stillcamp Church — 4.1 mi away
• Conley Grove Church — 4.6 mi away
• Independence Church — 5.2 mi away
• Shepherd's Fold Church — 5.3 mi away