Smyrna Church

The community around Smyrna Church

It takes 5.4 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 about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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: 25.4%
• Diabetes: 18.2%
• Obesity: 43.6%
• Child Poverty: 39.5% (23.5–55.6%)
• Social Isolation: 36.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
• Depression: 28.1%
• Poverty Rate: 22.5% (14.2–30.7%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
• Unemployment: 6.2% (2.0–10.4%)

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

Churches near Smyrna Church

• Israelite Church — 1 mi away in Grand Cane, LA
• Wood Springs Church — 2.1 mi away in Grand Cane, LA
• Old Zion Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Grand Cane, LA
• Flower Hill Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Grand Cane, LA
• Union Mission Church — 3.6 mi away in Grand Cane, LA
• Holiness Church — 4.2 mi away
• Keatchie Church of God In Christ — 4.2 mi away in Keatchie, LA
• Grand Cane Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Grand Cane, LA
• Grand Cane Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away in Grand Cane, LA
• New Zion Baptist Church Grand Cane, La — 4.8 mi away in Grand Cane, LA