Growing In the Word Ministries

The community around Growing In the Word Ministries

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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Obesity: 49.0%
• Child Poverty: 43.4% (28.2–59.0%)
• Social Isolation: 40.4%
• Food Insecurity: 34.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.3%
• Diabetes: 21.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
• Poverty Rate: 28.0% (18.6–37.3%)
• Housing Insecurity: 25.0%
• Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
• Unemployment: 8.0% (3.6–12.5%)
• Depression: 24.7%

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

Churches near Growing In the Word Ministries

• Browns Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Tangipahoa, LA
• Quinn Chapel AME Church — 1.4 mi away in Tangipahoa, LA
• Pine Ridge/Tangipahoa United Methodist Churches — 1.6 mi away in Tangipahoa, LA
• Kentwood United Pentecostal — 1.9 mi away
• Orange Grove Church of God In Christ — 2.1 mi away
• Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Oak Grove AME Church — 2.7 mi away
• Temple Chapel Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Kentwood, First Baptist Church — 3 mi away
• Lifeway Apostolic Church — 3.1 mi away