Saint Mark Church

The community around Saint Mark Church

It takes 5.5 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 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: 40.1%
• Social Isolation: 34.9%
• Child Poverty: 33.8% (24.0–43.5%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
• Depression: 27.1%
• Food Insecurity: 23.7%
• Diabetes: 17.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
• Poverty Rate: 21.8% (15.0–28.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%
• Unemployment: 7.8% (2.2–13.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saint Mark Church

• Oakley Church — 1.2 mi away
• Saint Paul Church Number 2 — 1.2 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Wisner, LA
• Holly Grove Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Wisner, LA
• First Baptist Church Gilbert — 2.3 mi away
• Calvary Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
• FirstPentecostal Wisner — 2.9 mi away in Wisner, LA
• New Alpha and Omega Church — 3 mi away in Wisner, LA
• New Light Church — 3.1 mi away in Wisner, LA
• New Macedonia Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away