Gaines Chapel

The community around Gaines Chapel

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.

• Child Poverty: 55.6% (37.8–73.5%)
• Obesity: 51.0%
• Social Isolation: 40.8%
• Food Insecurity: 39.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.8%
• Poverty Rate: 33.8% (22.7–45.0%)
• Housing Insecurity: 27.9%
• Diabetes: 23.3%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
• Transportation Barriers: 19.6%
• Unemployment: 9.5% (4.3–14.7%)
• Depression: 24.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Gaines Chapel

• Quinn Chapel AME Church — 2 mi away in Tangipahoa, LA
• Pine Ridge/Tangipahoa United Methodist Churches — 2.1 mi away in Tangipahoa, LA
• Tangipahoa Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
• Browns Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away in Tangipahoa, LA
• Growing In the Word Ministries — 3.1 mi away
• Taylor Creek Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
• Fluker Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.7 mi away
• Fluker Community Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Fluker, LA
• First Baptist Church of Arcola — 4.1 mi away in Roseland, LA
• Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away