Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive Church

It takes 7.9 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 of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Obesity: 41.8%
• Social Isolation: 35.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
• Depression: 27.9%
• Poverty Rate: 22.7% (11.4–34.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 21.8%
• Diabetes: 17.0%
• Unemployment: 9.4% (1.9–17.3%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.5%
• Child Poverty: 27.3% (12.9–41.7%)
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (7.0–20.3%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• Cedar Grove Church — 4.1 mi away in Newton, LA
• Bethel Grove United Pentecostal Church — 4.1 mi away in Deridder, LA
• Galilee Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Evans, LA
• Calvary Church — 5.1 mi away in Merryville, LA
• Grace Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in Deridder, LA
• Union Church — 5.9 mi away in Newton, TX
• Spears Chapel — 5.9 mi away in Burkeville, TX
• Evans Church — 6 mi away
• Bethlehem Church — 6.8 mi away in Merryville, LA
• Cooper Church — 7.5 mi away in Merryville, LA