Sanders Chapel

The community around Sanders Chapel

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than 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.

• Food Insecurity: 26.3%
• Diabetes: 19.0%
• Child Poverty: 39.9% (24.0–55.8%)
• Social Isolation: 35.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
• Poverty Rate: 23.1% (15.0–31.2%)
• Obesity: 39.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (8.6–19.0%)
• Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%

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

Churches near Sanders Chapel

• Bethel Church — 1.4 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 2 mi away
• First United Methodist Church of Water Valley — 2 mi away
• Church of Christ — 2.4 mi away
• First Christian Church — 2.4 mi away
• Faith Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Oak Ridge Church — 3.4 mi away
• Piney Grove Church — 3.7 mi away
• Union Hill Church — 3.8 mi away
• Bayson Chapel M.B. Church — 4.1 mi away