Cross Roads Church

The community around Cross Roads Church

It takes 3.6 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 children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 39.3% (20.0–58.6%)
• Social Isolation: 37.0%
• Poverty Rate: 24.0% (15.4–32.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 21.9%
• Obesity: 38.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
• Diabetes: 14.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (6.8–15.5%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%

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

Churches near Cross Roads Church

• Bethlehem Church — 0.9 mi away
• Pine Ridge MB Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Pine Ridge MB Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Pine Ridge Church — 1.9 mi away
• West Decatur Church — 2.1 mi away
• Beatline Church — 2.2 mi away
• Fellowship Church — 2.8 mi away
• Macedonia Church — 3.6 mi away
• Saint Mary Church — 3.6 mi away
• Pilgrim Rest Church — 4 mi away