St. Paul Skete

St. Paul Skete is a Orthodox church at 1855 Park Swain Road in Grand Junction, TN 38039. It is one of 12 churches in Grand Junction.

1855 Park Swain Road, Grand Junction, TN, 38039

St. Paul Skete is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 34 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Tennessee — 2,336 across the United States on The Church Map.

Orthodoxy has carried the worship of the ancient church essentially unbroken since the first centuries, and it has never let the rest of us settle for a gospel that only forgives — it insists God intends to make his people like himself. Its liturgy, its icons, and its theology of the Trinity are wells the whole church keeps returning to.

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The community around St. Paul Skete

It takes 5.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.

  • Diabetes: 18.2%
  • Obesity: 42.9%
  • Child Poverty: 38.5% (21.3–55.7%)
  • Social Isolation: 35.9%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 22.1%
  • Depression: 24.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.8% (10.5–25.2%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
  • Unemployment: 7.6% (2.8–12.5%)

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

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