Paw Paw Chapel

The community around Paw Paw Chapel

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Obesity: 44.3%
• Social Isolation: 34.4%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
• Food Insecurity: 24.4%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.6% (12.0–21.2%)
• Diabetes: 16.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.5%
• Depression: 26.9%
• Child Poverty: 25.4% (12.6–38.2%)
• Poverty Rate: 19.6% (13.1–26.1%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%

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

Churches near Paw Paw Chapel

• Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Arkoma, OK
• Lees Chapel Assembly of God — 4.2 mi away
• Arkoma Free Will Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Arkoma, OK
• Macedonia Church — 4.3 mi away in Fort Coffee, OK
• Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Arkoma, OK
• Union Church — 4.5 mi away in Pocola, OK
• The Sanctuary — 4.6 mi away in Fort Smith, AR
• Calvary Apostolic Pentecostal Church — 4.6 mi away in Fort Smith, AR
• Inglesia Misioner Biblica — 4.7 mi away in Fort Smith, AR
• Macedonia Church — 4.7 mi away in Pocola, OK