Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive Church

It takes 3.2 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: 44.5%
• Social Isolation: 36.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
• Food Insecurity: 23.2%
• Diabetes: 16.3%
• Depression: 24.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
• Unemployment: 6.7% (1.6–11.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church — 2.5 mi away
• St Matthew Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Paulina, LA
• Highway Church — 2.7 mi away in Vacherie, LA
• Manresa House of Retreats — 2.7 mi away
• Mt Olive Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Paulina, LA
• Evergreen Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Paulina, LA
• Grace Church of Paulina — 3 mi away in Paulina, LA
• Saint James Catholic Church — 3.3 mi away in Saint James, LA
• Saint Paul Church — 3.4 mi away in St James, LA
• Mt Bethel Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away in St James, LA