Saint John the Baptist Church

The community around Saint John the Baptist Church

It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.

• Social Isolation: 37.8%
• Depression: 27.8%
• Food Insecurity: 20.8%
• Obesity: 39.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint John the Baptist Church

• Assumption of Our Lady Mission — 0.2 mi away in Braithewaite, LA
• Oakville Missionary Baptist — 1.2 mi away in Belle Chasse, LA
• Greater St Peter Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Belle Chasse, LA
• Bethlehem Church — 3.3 mi away
• Saint Pius X Catholic Church — 4.9 mi away in Crown Point, LA
• Grace Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Marrero, LA
• Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church — 5.3 mi away in Belle Chasse, LA
• First Baptist Church of Belle Chasse — 5.5 mi away in Belle Chasse, LA
• Belle Chasse United Methodist Church — 6.3 mi away in Belle Chasse, LA
• Saint Joachim Catholic Church — 6.3 mi away in Marrero, LA