New Light Church

The community around New Light Church

It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.9%
• Food Insecurity: 35.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 25.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.4%
• Diabetes: 18.1%
• Obesity: 44.4%
• Social Isolation: 38.4%
• Poverty Rate: 29.9% (19.3–40.6%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.8%
• Unemployment: 11.4% (2.0–20.7%)
• Child Poverty: 25.8% (12.5–39.1%)
• Depression: 24.2%
• Transportation Barriers: 16.9%

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

Churches near New Light Church

• Saint Johns Church — 0.1 mi away
• St. John Baptist Church & Cemetery — 0.2 mi away in Evergreen, LA
• Evergreen United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away in Evergreen, LA
• Church of the Little Flower — 1.9 mi away in Evergreen, LA
• Bayou Rouge Baptist Church — 2 mi away in Evergreen, LA
• Magnolia Church — 2.4 mi away
• Golden Chain Church — 2.6 mi away
• Dry Bayou Church — 3.3 mi away
• Saint Pauls Church — 3.6 mi away
• Jerusalem Church — 4.3 mi away