Mount Olive Church

The community around Mount Olive Church

It takes 5.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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: 40.1%
• Social Isolation: 35.7%
• Depression: 30.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
• Food Insecurity: 23.1%
• Poverty Rate: 23.1% (15.3–31.0%)
• Diabetes: 16.5%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
• Unemployment: 6.9% (2.1–11.6%)

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

Churches near Mount Olive Church

• Church of Christ Oil City — 2.3 mi away
• Oil City United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• United Pentecostal Church — 2.9 mi away
• First Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Union Chapel Baptist Church Family — 3.4 mi away in Belcher, LA
• Pine Island Church — 3.9 mi away in Vivian, LA
• Ferry Lake Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
• Lake Zion Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Belcher, LA
• Mount Gilead Church — 4.6 mi away in Vivian, LA