Encounter Church

Ministries at Encounter Church

• Prison Ministry

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The community around Encounter Church

It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 the people here live without health insurance, 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.

• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 27.7% (20.5–35.0%)
• Obesity: 40.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.8%
• Diabetes: 16.1%
• Depression: 23.8%
• Poverty Rate: 16.4% (7.3–25.5%)
• Unemployment: 7.5% (2.3–12.6%)

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

Churches near Encounter Church

• Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away in Raywood, TX
• Riding With Christ Cowboy Ministries — 2 mi away in Vidor, TX
• Berean Tabernacle Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• St. Miles Missionary Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Ames, TX
• Saint Miles Missionary Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Ames, TX
• Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church — 3.2 mi away in Ames, TX
• River of Reconciliation — 4.1 mi away
• BibleWay Pentecostal Church — 4.1 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 4.2 mi away
• Kingdom Hall-Jehovah's Witness — 4.2 mi away