Chapel of the Living Waters

The community around Chapel of the Living Waters

It takes 20.0 miles in every direction to gather 1,100 neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Child Poverty: 53.3%
• Food Insecurity: 40.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 28.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.4%
• Transportation Barriers: 23.8%
• Diabetes: 20.0%
• Obesity: 41.6%
• Social Isolation: 36.5%
• Unemployment: 9.2% (2.3–17.4%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.7%
• Depression: 25.6%
• Poverty Rate: 19.3% (4.9–33.7%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.5%

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