Progressive Church

The community around Progressive Church

It takes 2.9 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 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.

• Obesity: 40.8%
• Social Isolation: 36.2%
• Child Poverty: 30.2% (13.8–46.6%)
• Depression: 29.3%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
• Food Insecurity: 23.3%
• Diabetes: 15.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.0%
• Poverty Rate: 20.7% (11.5–29.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Progressive Church

• Starlight Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
• Saint Catherine Church — 1.8 mi away
• Star Light Church — 1.8 mi away
• Riverside Church — 2 mi away
• Saint Marys Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
• Saint Paul Church — 2.4 mi away
• Baptist Faith Mission Outreach — 2.6 mi away
• Vick Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 3.1 mi away
• Vick Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Effie, LA