Union Mission Church

The community around Union Mission Church

It takes 5.3 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 describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 45.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
• Food Insecurity: 30.9%
• Diabetes: 20.0%
• Social Isolation: 37.7%
• Child Poverty: 33.6% (17.1–50.2%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
• Depression: 27.0%
• Poverty Rate: 24.8% (15.0–34.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 21.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
• Transportation Barriers: 15.0%
• Unemployment: 7.0% (1.3–12.8%)

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

Churches near Union Mission Church

• Friendship Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• New Friendship Church — 2.6 mi away in Logansport, LA
• Old Zion Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Wood Springs Church — 3.2 mi away
• Grand Cane Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
• Grand Cane Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away
• Smyrna Church — 3.6 mi away in Keachi, LA
• New Zion Baptist Church Grand Cane, La — 3.9 mi away
• Israelite Church — 3.9 mi away
• Zion Hill Baptist Church — 4 mi away