Mount Moriah Church

The community around Mount Moriah Church

It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.

• Child Poverty: 50.6% (36.1–65.2%)
• Obesity: 50.0%
• Poverty Rate: 39.5% (28.9–50.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 39.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.2%
• Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
• Diabetes: 24.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.4%
• Social Isolation: 38.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
• Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
• Depression: 25.4%

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

Churches near Mount Moriah Church

• New Friendship Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Arcadia, LA
• Mt. Calvary Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Shreveport, LA
• Emmanuel Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Arcadia, LA
• Church of Christ — 3.2 mi away in Arcadia, LA
• Trinity Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Arcadia, LA
• First United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away in Arcadia, LA
• First Methodist Church of Arcadia — 3.6 mi away in Arcadia, LA
• Bienville, Claiborne, & Jackson Parish CASA — 3.6 mi away in Arcadia, LA
• New Beginnings Ministries — 3.6 mi away in Arcadia, LA
• First Baptist Church of Arcadia — 3.7 mi away in Arcadia, LA