Meyers Bend Church

The community around Meyers Bend Church

It takes 7.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

• Food Insecurity: 25.5%
• Social Isolation: 36.3%
• Child Poverty: 31.0% (14.6–47.3%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
• Poverty Rate: 22.8% (14.5–31.1%)
• Diabetes: 16.4%
• Obesity: 39.6%
• Depression: 26.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%
• Unemployment: 7.0% (1.5–12.6%)

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

Churches near Meyers Bend Church

• Wardlaw Church — 1.2 mi away in Harrisonburg, LA
• Harrisonburg Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away in Harrisonburg, LA
• Bethel Assembly of God Church — 2.6 mi away in Harrisonburg, LA
• Harrisonburg First Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away in Harrisonburg, LA
• Wallace Ridge Pentecostal — 3.2 mi away
• Calvary Church — 3.2 mi away
• Kidron Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Harrisonburg, LA
• Wallace Ridge Church — 4.5 mi away
• Poole Bend Church — 4.8 mi away
• Birds Creek Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Harrisonburg, LA