Wier Chapel

The community around Wier Chapel

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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up 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.

• Obesity: 41.8%
• Social Isolation: 33.9%
• Child Poverty: 31.5% (13.4–49.6%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
• Food Insecurity: 17.9%
• Poverty Rate: 17.8% (8.9–26.6%)
• Diabetes: 14.6%

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

Churches near Wier Chapel

• Saint John Church — 0.9 mi away
• Jacobs Chapel — 2.2 mi away
• New Prospect Church — 2.5 mi away
• Moses Chapel — 2.7 mi away
• Westminster Presbyterian Church — 2.7 mi away
• Springdale Church — 3 mi away
• Paynes Chapel — 3.1 mi away
• Ripley First United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
• Trinity Church — 3.8 mi away
• New Hope Church — 3.9 mi away in Blue Mountain, MS