Shady Grove Church

The community around Shady Grove Church

It takes 6.8 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 have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 41.1%
• Social Isolation: 35.6%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
• Food Insecurity: 23.6%
• Diabetes: 16.6%
• Unemployment: 8.9% (1.7–17.2%)
• Depression: 24.4%
• Child Poverty: 22.4% (10.1–37.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
• Poverty Rate: 16.0% (7.8–24.2%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Shady Grove Church

• Ruple Church — 2 mi away
• Bethany Church — 3.5 mi away in Homer, LA
• Mount Lebanon Church — 3.7 mi away in Homer, LA
• Evening Light Tabernacle — 3.8 mi away in Homer, LA
• Pilgrims Rest Church — 4.6 mi away in Minden, LA
• Old Union Church — 4.6 mi away
• Salem Church — 5.5 mi away
• Union Grove Church — 5.5 mi away in Homer, LA
• White Oak Grove Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Homer, LA
• Oil Field Church — 6.5 mi away in Homer, LA