First United Church

The community around First United 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 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter 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.

• Social Isolation: 36.0%
• Obesity: 39.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
• Depression: 26.3%
• Child Poverty: 24.4% (9.9–38.9%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.9%
• Food Insecurity: 18.8%
• Poverty Rate: 16.9% (9.0–24.8%)
• Diabetes: 13.1%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First United Church

• Lone Star Church — 0.2 mi away
• Paron Church — 0.3 mi away
• Mount Ararat Church — 1.1 mi away
• Saint James Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Sterlington Holiness Tabernacle — 1.8 mi away
• Sterlington Church of God in Christ — 1.9 mi away
• Sterlington First Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• The Pentecostals of Sterlington — 3.2 mi away
• Spencer Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• Sterlington Church of Christ — 3.3 mi away