Slab Fork Church

The community around Slab Fork Church

It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 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: 43.9%
• Social Isolation: 35.6%
• Depression: 31.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
• Poverty Rate: 23.9% (14.1–33.8%)
• Diabetes: 17.5%
• Child Poverty: 24.6% (7.4–42.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 18.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
• Unemployment: 6.5% (1.7–11.6%)

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

Churches near Slab Fork Church

• Saint Johns Church — 0.5 mi away
• Otsego Bible Chapel — 1.1 mi away
• Highland Avenue Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
• Pierpoint Freewill Baptist Church — 2 mi away
• Allen Junction Church of God — 2.2 mi away
• Sweet Home Church — 4.2 mi away
• Bud-Alpoca Methodist Church — 4.2 mi away
• Friendship Church — 4.6 mi away