Hightower Church

The community around Hightower Church

It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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.

• Obesity: 38.3%
• Social Isolation: 30.8%
• Depression: 26.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
• Diabetes: 15.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (9.4–19.1%)

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

Churches near Hightower Church

• Brush Creek Church — 1.1 mi away in Bryson CIty, NC
• Dan Springs Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Euchella Church — 2.7 mi away
• Maple Springs Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Tellico Church — 2.8 mi away in Franklin, NC
• Nantahala Church — 3 mi away
• Watia Church — 3.5 mi away
• Sawmill Hill Church — 3.6 mi away
• Silver Creek Church — 3.9 mi away
• Rock Church — 4.5 mi away