Valley Bend Church

The community around Valley Bend Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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: 46.2%
• Social Isolation: 34.5%
• Depression: 31.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
• Diabetes: 16.2%
• Unemployment: 10.4% (4.3–16.5%)
• Child Poverty: 23.1% (6.4–40.0%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%

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

Churches near Valley Bend Church

• Valley Bend Church of Christ — 1.3 mi away
• Valley Bend Presbyterian Church — 1.5 mi away
• New Life Church — 4 mi away
• The Arbor Church — 4 mi away
• Mount Carmel Church — 4.2 mi away
• Mill Creek Memorial Union Mission Church — 4.5 mi away in Mill Creek, WV
• Mount Vernon Church — 4.5 mi away
• Mill Creek Presbyterian Church — 4.6 mi away in Mill Creek, WV
• Jerusalem Church — 5 mi away
• Tygarts Valley Baptist Church — 5 mi away