Smyrna Church

The community around Smyrna 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 2 in 10 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the children here are growing up 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): 28.7%
• Obesity: 41.9%
• Child Poverty: 33.1% (22.2–43.9%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
• Poverty Rate: 22.4% (16.5–28.3%)
• Depression: 26.9%
• Diabetes: 13.5%
• Unemployment: 7.5% (3.2–11.8%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Smyrna Church

• Mahoning Church — 2.1 mi away
• Ambrose Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
• Gilgal Church — 2.8 mi away
• Bethany Chapel — 3.5 mi away
• Presbyterian Church — 3.7 mi away in Plumville, PA
• Presbyterian Church of Marion — 3.8 mi away
• First Methodist Church of Marion Center — 3.8 mi away
• First United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
• Covenanter Church — 4 mi away
• OMBC — 4.8 mi away in Home, PA