Gueydan United Methodist Church
Gueydan United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Gueydan, LA 70542. It is one of 7 churches in Gueydan.
Gueydan, LA, 70542Gueydan United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 449 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Gueydan United Methodist 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 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Depression: 29.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Food Insecurity: 20.6%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (4.2–15.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Child Poverty: 26.9% (10.7–43.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.1% (12.8–29.4%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gueydan United Methodist Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gueydan International Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hubbard United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- St John The Baptist Catholic Church — 6.8 mi away in Morse, LA
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 6.9 mi away in Morse, LA
- Saint Davids Church — 7.3 mi away in Kaplan, LA
- The Holy Ghost Chapel — 8.9 mi away in Morse, LA
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 9.2 mi away in Crowley, LA
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lake Arthur First United Methodist Church — 10.9 mi away in Lake Arthur, LA
- Kaplan United Methodist Church — 13.5 mi away in Kaplan, LA
- Ebenezer United Methodist Church — 15 mi away in Crowley, LA
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 15 mi away in Crowley, LA