Independence Chapel

The community around Independence Chapel

It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half 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: 45.5%
• Social Isolation: 32.0%
• Diabetes: 15.4%
• Depression: 27.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.9%
• Poverty Rate: 16.3% (7.6–24.9%)
• Unemployment: 7.1% (1.1–13.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Independence Chapel

• Bethel Chapel — 1.6 mi away in Newport, OH
• Mount Hope Church — 2.3 mi away
• Valley Church — 3.2 mi away
• Raven Rock United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away in Saint Marys, WV
• Pine Ridge Church — 3.4 mi away
• Saint Marys Church of the Nazarene — 3.4 mi away in Saint Marys, WV
• North Pleasants Apostolic Tabernacle — 3.4 mi away in St Marys, WV
• Lawrence Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
• Point Pleasant Church — 3.6 mi away
• Fairview Church — 4.2 mi away