The Bible Temple

The community around The Bible Temple

It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Social Isolation: 35.1%
• Child Poverty: 32.4% (15.7–49.2%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
• Poverty Rate: 24.5% (16.2–32.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 21.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.1% (11.9–24.2%)
• Diabetes: 15.0%
• Obesity: 39.7%
• Depression: 25.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.1%

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

Coward town is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 459 residents.

Churches near The Bible Temple

• Saint Paul Church — 0.1 mi away
• Coward Church of God — 0.4 mi away
• Coward Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Believers HC Center — 0.6 mi away
• Family Worship Assembly — 0.7 mi away
• Ariel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
• Coward Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.8 mi away
• Tabernacle Free Will Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
• Savannah Grove Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Shiloh Church of Prophecy — 1.8 mi away