Oak Park United Methodist Church
Oak Park United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Lake Charles, LA 70601. It is one of 227 churches in Lake Charles, and one of 6 Methodist congregations in the city.
Lake Charles, LA, 70601Shares a ministry location with Warren United Methodist Church.
Oak Park United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 432 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Oak Park United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 70.6%
- Obesity: 48.9%
- Food Insecurity: 31.0%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Unemployment: 12.3% (3.4–21.1%)
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
- Poverty Rate: 22.3% (13.4–31.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lake Charles city is served by 91 churches — about one congregation for every 823 residents.
Churches near Oak Park United Methodist Church
- Warren United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Elevate Lake Charles — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the King — 0.4 mi away
- Evergreen Presbyterian Ministers — 0.5 mi away
- Boulevard Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater St Mary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Safehaven Bible Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- University United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Warren United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Reeves Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple — 2 mi away
- Living Water Lake Charles Global Methodist Church — 3 mi away
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