Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church
Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 318 1st Street in Melville, LA 71353. It is one of 9 churches in Melville.
318 1st Street, Melville, LA, 71353Phone: +1 337-623-4957
Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 577 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Louisiana — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church
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: 31.5%
- Food Insecurity: 26.9%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Depression: 27.2%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (2.1–15.1%)
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.0%
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (8.7–23.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church of Melville — 0.3 mi away
- Evening Star Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Church — 4.3 mi away
- New Zion Church — 4.9 mi away in Batchelor, LA
- Mount Olive Church — 5 mi away in Morganza, LA
- Zion Traveler Church — 5.4 mi away
- Greater Saint Marks Church — 5.9 mi away in Batchelor, LA
- Atchafalaya Church — 7.2 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church of Bayou Rouge — 7.5 mi away in Palmetto, LA
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- Sacred Heart Mission Chapel — 10.4 mi away in Lebeau, LA
- Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church — 10.9 mi away in Krotz Springs, LA
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