Thee Church

The community around Thee Church

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Child Poverty: 45.4% (27.1–63.7%)
• Obesity: 44.9%
• Social Isolation: 36.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
• Diabetes: 15.8%
• Unemployment: 8.6% (2.2–14.9%)
• Depression: 26.6%
• Poverty Rate: 21.4% (12.2–30.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 20.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.5%

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

Churches near Thee Church

• Harvest of Praise Church — 0.2 mi away
• Appalachia United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
• First Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
• Oak Grove Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
• Heritage Church of God — 2 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
• Bethesda Church of God — 2 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
• New Hope Assembly of God — 2.1 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA
• First Christian Church — 2.3 mi away in Big Stone Gap, VA