Rural Retreat Baptist Church
Rural Retreat Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Welch, WV 24801. It is one of 23 churches in Welch, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Welch, WV, 24801Rural Retreat Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 774 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West Virginia — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Rural Retreat Baptist Church
It takes 3.6 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 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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: 46.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Diabetes: 18.7%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Depression: 30.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.0% (15.2–34.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Child Poverty: 23.6% (6.2–41.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.1%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (1.2–13.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Rural Retreat Baptist Church
- Community Church — 4.6 mi away in Kimball, WV
- Guyandotte Church — 4.8 mi away
- North Welch Church — 4.9 mi away
- Bud-Alpoca Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away
- Burke Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away in Northfork, WV
- Houston Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away in Kimball, WV
- Masks Chapel — 5.5 mi away in Northfork, WV
- First Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Kimball, WV
- Kimball Church — 5.5 mi away in Northfork, WV
- Mount Nebo Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Kimball, WV
More Baptist churches nearby
- Burke Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away in Northfork, WV
- First Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away in Kimball, WV
- Mount Nebo Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Kimball, WV
- Keystone Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away in Keystone, WV
- Mount Chapel Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Keystone, WV
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