Salvation Army Laotian Ministries
Salvation Army Laotian Ministries is a church at 1440 West 12th Street in Merced, CA 95341. It is one of 117 churches in Merced.
Serving since 1865 · Services in Chinese
1440 West 12th Street, Merced, CA, 95341Website: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org
Salvation Army Laotian Ministries is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 304 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across California — 4,365 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Salvation Army Laotian Ministries
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Child Poverty: 41.4% (25.2–57.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.0%
- Unemployment: 15.3% (7.9–22.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Poverty Rate: 28.6% (19.1–38.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (6.6–16.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Merced city is served by 56 churches — about one congregation for every 1,054 residents.
Churches near Salvation Army Laotian Ministries
- New Life Assembly — 0.2 mi away
- Merced Bethel Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Assembly Of God — 0.3 mi away
- Church Of The Living God — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Missionary Baptist — 0.4 mi away
- Merced Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Comunidad Más Fe Internacional — 0.5 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Cornerstone Worship Center Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Church — 0.5 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Bear Creek Community Church — 3 mi away
- Church Of The Nazarene — 6 mi away in Atwater, CA
- Connecting Point Church of the Nazarene — 22.9 mi away in Denair, CA
- The Salvation Army Turlock Corps — 23 mi away in Turlock, CA
- First Church Of The Nazarene — 24.1 mi away in Los Banos, CA