Mount Zion Church

The community around Mount Zion Church

It takes 9.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Child Poverty: 62.3% (43.5–81.1%)
• Obesity: 45.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
• Food Insecurity: 27.9%
• Diabetes: 20.1%
• Social Isolation: 37.4%
• Depression: 28.0%
• Poverty Rate: 23.2% (14.1–32.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
• Unemployment: 6.2% (2.0–10.4%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Zion Church

• First Baptist Church of Bienville — 3.5 mi away in Bienville, LA
• Elijah Church — 4.9 mi away
• Mount Villa Church — 5.4 mi away
• Sparta Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
• Shiloh Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away in Bienville, LA
• Mount Kingdom Church — 6.8 mi away
• Ridge Church — 6.9 mi away
• Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away
• Old Castor Church — 7.5 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 7.8 mi away