Lower Tensas Church

The community around Lower Tensas Church

It takes 8.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.

• Child Poverty: 40.1% (24.2–55.0%)
• Food Insecurity: 25.8%
• Diabetes: 18.3%
• Obesity: 41.7%
• Social Isolation: 36.5%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
• Poverty Rate: 23.4% (13.5–33.4%)
• Unemployment: 9.9% (2.6–17.5%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
• Depression: 26.0%
• Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%

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

Churches near Lower Tensas Church

• Springfield Church — 1.3 mi away
• Sunnyside Church — 2 mi away
• Alphenia Church — 2.7 mi away
• New Light Church — 2.7 mi away
• Sunnyside Church — 3 mi away in Clayton, LA
• New Zion Church — 3.5 mi away
• Maitland Church — 3.6 mi away
• Saint Peters Church — 4.4 mi away in Ferriday, LA
• Foules Church of God — 4.4 mi away
• Greenfield Church — 5.7 mi away