Whispering Pines Church

The community around Whispering Pines Church

It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 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: 40.7%
• Social Isolation: 35.5%
• Depression: 31.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
• Food Insecurity: 24.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (6.9–26.1%)
• Diabetes: 15.1%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
• Poverty Rate: 18.9% (9.1–28.7%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Whispering Pines Church

• Old Zion Hill Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Independence, LA
• Saint James Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• United Pentecostal Church of Holden — 2.3 mi away
• Harvest World Outreach — 2.3 mi away
• Saint James Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Magnolia Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
• First United Pentecostal Church — 3.1 mi away in 9, LA
• Doyle Bible Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Lone Pine Church of God — 3.4 mi away
• Blood River Church — 3.7 mi away in Albany, LA