Vales Church

The community around Vales Church

It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and about 1 in 5 working-age adults live without health insurance, 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.

• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.6% (12.5–24.6%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
• Depression: 23.7%
• Child Poverty: 23.5% (9.1–37.9%)
• Diabetes: 14.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Vales Church

• Shady Grove Church — 3.3 mi away in Rusk, TX
• Branded By Christ Cowboy Church — 3.5 mi away in Rusk, TX
• Reklaw Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Reklaw, TX
• Reklaw Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Reklaw, TX
• Blounts Church — 4.2 mi away in Rusk, TX
• Lowes Church — 4.8 mi away in Rusk, TX
• Union Church — 5.2 mi away
• New Salem Missionary Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Henderson, TX
• Pleasant Holly Church — 6 mi away in Rusk, TX
• Gallatin Church of Christ — 6.2 mi away in Gallatin, TX