Ridgeway Church

The community around Ridgeway Church

It takes 5.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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.

• Obesity: 42.7%
• Social Isolation: 35.3%
• Child Poverty: 30.2% (19.2–41.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
• Diabetes: 17.1%
• Unemployment: 8.3% (3.0–13.6%)
• Depression: 24.2%
• Food Insecurity: 19.2%

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

Churches near Ridgeway Church

• Centenary United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Sharon Church — 2.6 mi away
• Spreading Oak Church — 3 mi away
• Mount Tabor Church — 3.7 mi away
• Union Branch Church — 4.3 mi away
• Goshen Church — 5 mi away
• St Joy Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Howardsville, VA
• Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary — 5.1 mi away in Dillwyn, VA
• Ebenezer Church — 5.1 mi away in Dillwyn, VA
• Berea Chapel — 5.3 mi away