Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church
Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 707 Orange Street in Mermentau, LA 70556.
707 Orange Street, Mermentau, LA, 70556Phone: (337) 824-2278
Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 578 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Louisiana — 18,927 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 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 41.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Depression: 28.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Food Insecurity: 22.3%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Child Poverty: 29.6% (15.3–44.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
- Poverty Rate: 20.4% (12.8–28.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (2.9–11.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church
- The Holy Ghost Chapel — 3.6 mi away in Morse, LA
- First Church of Christ — 4.3 mi away in Jennings, LA
- Mount Triumph Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Jennings, LA
- Power House Church of God In Christ — 4.6 mi away in Jennings, LA
- In Jesus Name Ministries — 4.7 mi away in Jennings, LA
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church — 4.7 mi away in Jennings, LA
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Jennings, LA
- Saint Johns Evangelist Catholic — 4.7 mi away in Jennings, LA
- First Church of Christ — 4.7 mi away in Jennings, LA
- Union Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Jennings, LA
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