Big Island Church

The community around Big Island Church

It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 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 about a third 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: 36.9%
• Depression: 30.9%
• Obesity: 38.0%
• Child Poverty: 27.7% (15.2–40.2%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.2%
• Poverty Rate: 21.7% (13.9–29.5%)
• Food Insecurity: 17.2%

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

Churches near Big Island Church

• Deville Church of God — 0 mi away in Deville, LA
• Harmony Church — 0.6 mi away
• New Hope Free Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
• Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away in Deville, LA
• Crossroads New Life Tabernacle — 1.2 mi away in Deville, LA
• Big Island Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Longview Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Deville, LA
• Deville Church — 1.7 mi away
• Old Paths Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Martha Chapel Free Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away