New Friendship Church Number 1

The community around New Friendship Church Number 1

It takes 6.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, 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.

• Child Poverty: 49.7% (34.1–65.3%)
• Diabetes: 18.0%
• Obesity: 43.3%
• Social Isolation: 36.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
• Depression: 29.2%
• Poverty Rate: 25.1% (15.1–35.1%)
• Food Insecurity: 24.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%

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

Churches near New Friendship Church Number 1

• Old Castor Church — 1.2 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Castor, LA
• Ridge Church — 4.3 mi away
• Castor Church — 4.5 mi away
• Castor Assembly of God — 4.5 mi away in Castor, LA
• Wallace Church — 5.6 mi away
• Ebenezer Church — 5.8 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 6 mi away
• Evergreen Church — 6.2 mi away
• Jamestown Baptist Church — 6.3 mi away in Jamestown, LA