Saints Rest Church

The community around Saints Rest Church

It takes 4.8 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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: 43.2%
• Child Poverty: 36.5% (22.1–51.0%)
• Social Isolation: 34.6%
• Depression: 27.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
• Food Insecurity: 21.6%
• Diabetes: 16.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
• Poverty Rate: 21.0% (14.4–27.6%)
• Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
• Unemployment: 6.5% (2.4–10.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Saints Rest Church

• St Rest Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
• Mount Zion Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Ruston, LA
• Beech Springs Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Bethany Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Sweetwater Church — 3.4 mi away
• Prospect Church — 3.4 mi away in Ruston, LA
• Vernon Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Ruston, LA
• Bethany Baptist Church — 4 mi away
• Pleasant Grove Church — 4 mi away in Ruston, LA
• Adams Chapel Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away