Mount Olive United Methodist Church
Mount Olive United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Bastrop, LA 71220. It is one of 98 churches in Bastrop, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Bastrop, LA, 71220Mount Olive United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 432 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Mount Olive United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 54.0% (36.8–71.2%)
- Obesity: 51.7%
- Food Insecurity: 49.1%
- Social Isolation: 43.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.0%
- Poverty Rate: 39.2% (25.3–53.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.7%
- Diabetes: 24.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.5%
- Unemployment: 13.3% (4.6–22.0%)
- Depression: 25.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bastrop city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 340 residents.
Churches near Mount Olive United Methodist Church
- Ivory Chapel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Magnolia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Life Blood Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- ALPHA and OMEGA Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- St Mary's CME Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Marys Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Marys Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Andrew's Episcopal Church — 7.7 mi away in Mer Rouge, LA
- Saint Andrews Methodist Church — 9.8 mi away in Sterlington, LA
- Foundry — 9.8 mi away in Sterlington, LA