Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church
Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church is a Roman_catholic church at 603 Main Street in Gueydan, LA 70542. It is one of 6 churches in Gueydan.
It was the mid-1890’s when a long, bumpy trip by horse and buggy was made each month to Gueydan by a Dutch missionary named Monsignor Joseph Peeters.
Serving since 1907 · Accessible parking
603 Main Street, Gueydan, LA, 70542Phone: +1 337-536-9258 · Website: http://saintpeterchurch.org/
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The community around Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic 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: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Depression: 29.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Food Insecurity: 20.6%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (4.1–15.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Child Poverty: 27.0% (10.7–43.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.1% (12.7–29.4%)
- 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 Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gueydan United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gueydan International Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hubbard United Church of Christ — 0.4 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 — 7.1 mi away
- The Holy Ghost Chapel — 8.9 mi away in Morse, LA
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 9 mi away in Crowley, LA