Gandee Chapel

The community around Gandee Chapel

It takes 2.6 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 a third of adults here carry depression, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 35.8%
• Depression: 33.2%
• Poverty Rate: 30.0% (21.4–38.7%)
• Food Insecurity: 25.1%
• Diabetes: 20.7%
• Unemployment: 13.8% (6.6–21.1%)
• Obesity: 43.1%
• Social Isolation: 33.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Gandee Chapel

• Spencer Presbyterian Church — 1.6 mi away
• Apostolic Faith Chapel — 1.7 mi away
• The Chapel — 1.7 mi away
• Spencer Church of the Nazarene — 1.8 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Spencer — 1.8 mi away
• Saint Johns United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Memorial United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
• Steele Hollow Community Church — 2.1 mi away
• United Methodist Camps & Conferences — 2.1 mi away
• Bethel United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away