Saint Marks Church

The community around Saint Marks Church

It takes 2.6 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 have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 40.1%
• Social Isolation: 37.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
• Food Insecurity: 23.9%
• Diabetes: 17.1%
• Depression: 25.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint Marks Church

• St Mark Baptist Church — 0 mi away in Mt Airy, LA
• Saint Hubert Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away in Garyville, LA
• True Light Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away in Garyville, LA
• Mount Zion Baptist Church #1 — 1.6 mi away in Garyville, LA
• Saint Martins Church — 2.3 mi away
• Second African Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Edgard, LA
• Saint Peters Church — 2.4 mi away
• New St Peter BC — 2.4 mi away in Edgard, LA
• Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church — 3 mi away in Gramercy, LA
• Bridgepoint Church — 3.1 mi away in Gramercy, LA