Greater Flowery Mount Baptist Church

Greater Flowery Mount Baptist Church is a church at 1600 Wood St in Monroe, LA 71201-7746. It is one of 195 churches in Monroe.

1600 Wood St, Monroe, LA, 71201-7746

Phone: +13183238728 · Website: http://www.gfmchurch.com

Greater Flowery Mount Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.

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The community around Greater Flowery Mount Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 75.5%
  • Obesity: 56.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 56.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 53.0%
  • Social Isolation: 42.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 38.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 33.8%
  • Transportation Barriers: 27.0%
  • Diabetes: 25.1%
  • Unemployment: 15.6% (5.8–26.0%)
  • Depression: 24.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (4.8–18.1%)

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

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