Our Lady of Divine Providence Catholic Church
Our Lady of Divine Providence Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 8617 West Metairie Avenue in Metairie, LA 70003. It is one of 100 churches in Metairie, and one of 12 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
8617 West Metairie Avenue, Metairie, LA, 70003Website: https://oldp.org/
Our Lady of Divine Providence 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 Our Lady of Divine Providence Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. 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. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 41.8%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Child Poverty: 30.5% (12.8–48.2%)
- Depression: 27.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Food Insecurity: 20.7%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (2.2–14.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
- Poverty Rate: 19.3% (10.6–28.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Our Lady of Divine Providence Catholic Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
- seventh day adventist church — 0.5 mi away
- Metairie Spanish SDA Church — 0.5 mi away
- Metro Christian Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- First Christian Church of Greater New Orleans — 0.6 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Airline Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.7 mi away in Kenner, LA
- KoinoniaYouth — 0.7 mi away in Kenner, LA
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- Saint Philip Neri Catholic Church — 1.8 mi away
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