Lees Summit Church

The community around Lees Summit Church

It takes 4.5 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 nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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: 27.2%
• Poverty Rate: 24.5% (15.0–34.1%)
• Diabetes: 15.1%
• Unemployment: 8.1% (2.3–14.1%)
• Obesity: 39.8%
• Social Isolation: 31.1%
• Child Poverty: 29.7% (14.1–45.3%)
• Depression: 26.2%
• Food Insecurity: 18.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.5% (9.3–19.8%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%

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

Churches near Lees Summit Church

• Union Church — 0.9 mi away in Lebanon, MO
• New Hope Church — 0.9 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 2.3 mi away
• Flatwoods Church — 3.8 mi away in Lebanon, MO
• Oak Grove Church — 4.1 mi away in Lebanon, MO
• Church of Christ — 4.8 mi away in Conway, MO
• Phillipsburg Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
• Phillipsburg Christian Church — 4.9 mi away
• Phillipsburg United Methodist — 4.9 mi away
• Harmony Church — 5 mi away