Mount Pleasant Church

The community around Mount Pleasant Church

It takes 7.4 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: 34.0%
• Food Insecurity: 29.7%
• Diabetes: 20.7%
• Obesity: 40.9%
• Social Isolation: 37.2%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
• Unemployment: 9.3% (2.3–16.3%)
• Depression: 26.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.7%
• Transportation Barriers: 14.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Mount Pleasant Church

• New Zion Church — 1.8 mi away in Batchelor, LA
• Atchafalaya Church — 2.9 mi away
• Greater Saint Marks Church — 3 mi away in Batchelor, LA
• True Light Church — 3.4 mi away
• Evening Star Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
• Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 4.3 mi away
• First Pentecostal Church of Melville — 4.6 mi away
• First Pentecostal Church of Bayou Rouge — 4.9 mi away in Palmetto, LA
• United Pentecostal Church — 4.9 mi away in Palmetto, LA