Porter Chapel

The community around Porter 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 3 in 10 adults here carry depression, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.

• Depression: 32.3%
• Obesity: 40.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.9% (4.2–25.6%)
• Unemployment: 7.1% (2.2–12.0%)

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

Churches near Porter Chapel

• Tabernacle Church — 1.3 mi away
• Summertown Church of Christ — 2.2 mi away
• Summertown Nazarene Church — 2.4 mi away
• Summertown Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Barnesville Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• Barnesville Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
• The Tabernacle — 3.4 mi away
• Henryville Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Henryville Church of Christ — 3.5 mi away
• Brace Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away