Barker Fork Church

The community around Barker Fork Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression, 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.

• Depression: 32.3%
• Obesity: 44.2%
• Social Isolation: 35.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
• Diabetes: 16.5%
• Unemployment: 11.8% (1.9–21.7%)
• Poverty Rate: 20.6% (13.0–28.3%)
• Food Insecurity: 16.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%

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

Churches near Barker Fork Church

• Garrett Fork Church — 0.8 mi away
• Mill Creek Church — 1.5 mi away
• Victory Church — 2 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 2.2 mi away
• Lake Church — 2.6 mi away
• Garrett Family Chapel — 2.6 mi away
• Mount Mission Church — 2.9 mi away
• Meadow Fork Church — 2.9 mi away
• Stevens Chapel — 3.1 mi away
• Wheatley Branch Church — 3.3 mi away