First Christian Church

The community around First Christian Church

It takes 2.8 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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: 43.0%
• Child Poverty: 33.8% (18.5–49.0%)
• Social Isolation: 32.9%
• Depression: 30.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
• Diabetes: 17.0%
• Unemployment: 9.0% (4.5–13.5%)
• Poverty Rate: 21.5% (15.1–27.8%)
• Food Insecurity: 16.4%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%

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

Churches near First Christian Church

• Sistersville Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
• Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
• First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
• First Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
• Sistersville First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
• Gravel Hill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in New Matamoras, OH
• Holy Rosary Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
• Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
• St Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away