Hires Chapel

The community around Hires Chapel

It takes 4.7 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 34.9%
• Depression: 27.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
• Food Insecurity: 20.3%
• Diabetes: 15.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Hires Chapel

• Greenville Church — 1.3 mi away
• Mount Olive Church — 1.8 mi away
• Evening Light Tabernacle — 2.1 mi away in Minden, LA
• Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away in Minden, LA
• Mount Comfort Church — 4.3 mi away in Minden, LA
• Whispering Pines Church — 4.4 mi away in Minden, LA
• Mount Sariah Church — 4.7 mi away
• Long Springs Church — 5 mi away in Minden, LA
• Blue Run Church — 5.2 mi away in Minden, LA
• First United Pentecostal Church — 5.3 mi away