Saint John Church

The community around Saint John Church

It takes 6.6 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 45.5%
• Child Poverty: 43.6% (29.0–58.3%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
• Food Insecurity: 32.2%
• Diabetes: 22.7%
• Social Isolation: 37.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.0%
• Poverty Rate: 27.3% (17.5–37.1%)
• Housing Insecurity: 22.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.4%
• Unemployment: 9.5% (2.8–16.6%)
• Transportation Barriers: 15.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint John Church

• First United MBC — 1.7 mi away in Waterproof, LA
• Cool Coosa Church — 2.1 mi away
• Gilfield Church — 2.1 mi away
• Lakeshore Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Shiloh Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Waterproof, LA
• Saint Mark Church — 4.1 mi away in Waterproof, LA
• Jerusalem Church — 4.1 mi away
• Saint Mary Church — 4.5 mi away
• Saint Mark Church — 4.6 mi away in Waterproof, LA
• Waterproof United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away in Waterproof, LA