New Enterprise Church

The community around New Enterprise Church

It takes 5.5 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 41.9%
• Social Isolation: 36.0%
• Child Poverty: 32.5% (18.6–46.4%)
• Depression: 27.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
• Food Insecurity: 23.8%
• Poverty Rate: 23.4% (16.0–30.8%)
• Diabetes: 16.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near New Enterprise Church

• Evergreen Church — 1.6 mi away
• Morning Star Church — 2.3 mi away
• Old Morning Star Church — 3.2 mi away
• New Salem Church — 3.3 mi away
• Gilgal Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away in Natchitoches, LA
• Mount Pilgrim Church — 3.7 mi away
• Saint Joseph Church — 4 mi away
• Saint Marthas Church — 4.5 mi away
• Harmony Church — 4.9 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 5.3 mi away