Extension Chapel

The community around Extension Chapel

It takes 9.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 the people here live without health insurance, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live 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.

• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 39.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
• Poverty Rate: 31.2% (20.1–42.2%)
• Diabetes: 18.6%
• Obesity: 43.2%
• Unemployment: 8.6% (2.4–14.7%)
• Social Isolation: 29.2%
• Child Poverty: 28.2% (13.9–42.6%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%

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

Churches near Extension Chapel

• Lakota HOPE Ministry — 1.6 mi away in Whiteclay, NE
• Hands of Faith Ministry — 1.7 mi away in Whiteclay, NE
• Holy Cross Episcopal Church — 3.6 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 3.6 mi away in Pine Ridge, SD
• Lakota Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Pine Ridge, SD
• Sacred Heart Church — 3.7 mi away
• Saint Marys Church — 8.3 mi away