Mount Canion Church

The community around Mount Canion Church

It takes 3.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.

• Food Insecurity: 25.3%
• Obesity: 44.3%
• Social Isolation: 38.8%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
• Diabetes: 17.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
• Child Poverty: 27.2% (13.1–43.3%)
• Depression: 25.1%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.8%
• Poverty Rate: 17.7% (9.0–26.5%)

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

Churches near Mount Canion Church

• Church of God — 0.1 mi away
• Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
• Mount Nebo Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
• Big Creek Church — 2.2 mi away
• Mount Gillion Church — 3.1 mi away
• Fluker Community Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Fluker, LA
• Fluker Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.1 mi away
• Amite-Arcola Church — 3.4 mi away
• Good Hope Church — 3.6 mi away in Kentwood, LA
• FBC Roseland — 3.7 mi away