East Lake Andes Church

The community around East Lake Andes Church

It takes 8.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, nearly a quarter of 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): 22.9%
• Obesity: 41.9%
• Child Poverty: 30.2% (19.6–40.8%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
• Poverty Rate: 23.5%
• Diabetes: 16.2%
• Unemployment: 8.0% (4.5–11.5%)

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

Churches near East Lake Andes Church

• Wagner Community Church — 7.4 mi away in Wagner, SD
• St John Lutheran Church — 7.7 mi away in Wagner, SD
• Lighthouse Ministry of Wagner — 7.7 mi away in Wagner, SD
• United Methodist Church — 7.8 mi away in Wagner, SD
• St John's Catholic Church — 7.8 mi away in Wagner, SD
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 8 mi away in Wagner, SD
• St Paul the Apostle Church — 9.1 mi away
• Redeemer Lutheran Church — 9.1 mi away
• Saint Pauls Church — 9.2 mi away
• United Church of Christ — 9.2 mi away