Welcome Home Church

The community around Welcome Home Church

It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.

• Social Isolation: 33.7%
• Child Poverty: 33.6% (16.0–51.1%)
• Depression: 28.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
• Poverty Rate: 22.1% (10.8–33.3%)
• Diabetes: 15.8%
• Obesity: 39.8%
• Food Insecurity: 19.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (8.6–18.9%)
• Unemployment: 7.8% (0.7–14.8%)

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

Churches near Welcome Home Church

• Traphill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Faith Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
• Roaring River Church — 1.9 mi away
• Billings Hill Church — 1.8 mi away
• Elk Spur Church — 2.1 mi away in Roaring Gap, NC
• Sandy Creek Church — 2.1 mi away
• Union Church — 2.2 mi away
• Round Hill Church — 2.4 mi away
• Knobs Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Stony Ridge Church — 2.8 mi away