Mount Bethel Church

The community around Mount Bethel Church

It takes 2.6 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. 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: 41.8%
• Social Isolation: 36.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
• Food Insecurity: 24.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
• Depression: 24.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.9%
• Diabetes: 14.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (6.8–16.3%)
• Unemployment: 6.6% (1.0–12.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

St. Gabriel city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 911 residents.

Churches near Mount Bethel Church

• Brazile Church — 1.5 mi away in White Castle, LA
• Mount Bethel Church — 1.8 mi away
• New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away in St Gabriel, LA
• Sacred Heart Chapel — 2.2 mi away in Carville, LA
• Iberville Christian Center — 2.5 mi away in St Gabriel, LA
• Saint Gabriel Catholic Church — 2.7 mi away
• Point Pleasant Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Plaquemine, LA
• Saint Mary Church — 2.9 mi away in Donaldsonville, LA
• Madonna Chapel — 3 mi away in Plaquemine, LA
• Asbery African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3 mi away in White Castle, LA