Murphy Creek Church

The community around Murphy Creek Church

It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, 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.

• Depression: 32.2%
• Unemployment: 17.7% (7.9–27.6%)
• Obesity: 41.6%
• Social Isolation: 34.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
• Food Insecurity: 20.0%
• Diabetes: 17.0%
• Child Poverty: 28.3% (11.3–45.3%)
• Poverty Rate: 20.4% (11.7–29.1%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%

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

Churches near Murphy Creek Church

• Miles Chapel — 1.2 mi away
• Saint Pauls Church — 1.4 mi away
• Waldeck United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Church of Christ — 2.6 mi away
• Bendale United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Horizons Church Lewis County — 3 mi away
• Broad Street United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
• Saint Paul Episcopal Church — 3.3 mi away
• Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 3.3 mi away