Bell Grove Church

The community around Bell Grove Church

It takes 6.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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: 69.8%
• Obesity: 51.1%
• Social Isolation: 42.5%
• Food Insecurity: 40.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.2%
• Poverty Rate: 36.0% (24.8–47.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 29.6%
• Diabetes: 23.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 20.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
• Unemployment: 6.2% (0.9–11.8%)

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

Churches near Bell Grove Church

• Oregon Church — 1.3 mi away
• East Jones Chapel — 2.4 mi away
• St Mary's Episcopal Church — 2.5 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 2.5 mi away
• Saint Thomas Catholic Church — 2.5 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 2.6 mi away
• Guiding Light COGIC — 2.6 mi away
• Holmes County Baptist Association — 2.7 mi away
• Beulah Church — 2.7 mi away