New Saint John Church

The community around New Saint John Church

It takes 7.1 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 of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 40.5%
• Social Isolation: 36.4%
• Child Poverty: 35.0% (18.7–50.6%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
• Food Insecurity: 24.2%
• Diabetes: 17.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
• Depression: 26.0%
• Poverty Rate: 21.8% (12.2–31.4%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%
• Unemployment: 7.6% (1.2–14.4%)

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

Churches near New Saint John Church

• Dunbarton Church — 0.2 mi away
• Mount Oliva Church — 1.4 mi away
• Faith Church — 1.5 mi away
• Cash Bayou Church — 1.8 mi away in Harrisonburg, LA
• Foules Church of God — 2.8 mi away
• Saint Peters Church — 3.2 mi away
• Maitland Church — 3.5 mi away
• Rose Grove Church — 4.3 mi away
• Chantilly Church — 5.2 mi away in Harrisonburg, LA
• New Light Church — 5.2 mi away