Jenkins Chapel

The community around Jenkins Chapel

It takes 5.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
• Diabetes: 19.2%
• Obesity: 43.1%
• Social Isolation: 33.3%
• Depression: 31.1%
• Food Insecurity: 20.3%
• Child Poverty: 28.1% (12.9–43.3%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.4% (13.5–29.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%

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

Churches near Jenkins Chapel

• Buckhorn Church — 2.6 mi away
• Garrett's Chapel United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Crab Run Church — 3.6 mi away
• Cove Chapel — 4.5 mi away
• Cove Church — 4.7 mi away
• Mount Hermon Church — 5.2 mi away
• Martin Luther Church — 6.9 mi away
• Mountain View Church — 7 mi away
• Bergton Gospel Center — 7.1 mi away
• Prince of Peace Lutheran Church — 7.1 mi away in Basye, VA