Bear Creek Church

The community around Bear Creek Church

It takes 7.8 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 about a third 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.

• Child Poverty: 59.9% (41.6–78.2%)
• Obesity: 48.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
• Food Insecurity: 34.6%
• Diabetes: 22.9%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.5%
• Social Isolation: 38.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
• Poverty Rate: 29.6% (20.9–38.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 23.7%
• Depression: 26.2%
• Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (5.9–17.8%)

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

Churches near Bear Creek Church

• Mount Kingdom Church — 1.3 mi away
• Shiloh Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Bienville, LA
• Pratt Hill Church — 4.1 mi away
• New Fellowship Church — 4.2 mi away
• Driskill Church — 4.2 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Bienville — 4.7 mi away in Bienville, LA
• Saline Ridge Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Arcadia, LA
• New Bethel Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Arcadia, LA
• Sardis Church — 5.5 mi away
• Springfield Church — 6.7 mi away in Mount Lebanon, LA