First Pentecostal Church of Melville
First Pentecostal Church of Melville is a Pentecostal church at 112 Fontenot St in Melville, LA 71353. It is one of 9 churches in Melville.
Our mission is to bring the hope of the gospel of Jesus Christ to our community.
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112 Fontenot St, Melville, LA, 71353Service times
- Sunday 10am · - &
- Sunday 6pm · - &
Phone: +18708344369 · Website: https://www.fpcofmelville.com/
First Pentecostal Church of Melville is part of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family of churches in The American Church Story. 403 congregations of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family gather across Louisiana — 17,437 across the United States on The Church Map.
Pentecostalism began in a Los Angeles livery stable with Black and white believers worshiping together while segregation was the law, and it has become the fastest-growing Christian movement in history. Its recovery of the Spirit's gifts, and the songs it has written, have crossed into nearly every other tradition on this map.
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The community around First Pentecostal Church of Melville
It takes 6.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Food Insecurity: 26.9%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Depression: 27.3%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (2.1–15.0%)
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.0%
- Poverty Rate: 16.2% (8.6–23.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Pentecostal Church of Melville
- Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Evening Star Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Church — 4.6 mi away
- Mount Olive Church — 5.1 mi away in Morganza, LA
- New Zion Church — 5.1 mi away in Batchelor, LA
- Zion Traveler Church — 5.4 mi away
- Greater Saint Marks Church — 6.2 mi away in Batchelor, LA
- Atchafalaya Church — 7.5 mi away
- United Pentecostal Church — 7.5 mi away in Palmetto, LA
More Pentecostal churches nearby
- United Pentecostal Church — 7.5 mi away in Palmetto, LA
- Opelousas Pentecostal Church — 23.6 mi away in Opelousas, LA
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