Waterproof United Methodist Church
Waterproof United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Waterproof, LA 71375. It is one of 16 churches in Waterproof.
Waterproof, LA, 71375Waterproof United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 432 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Waterproof United Methodist Church
It takes 6.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 61.1%
- Obesity: 50.3%
- Food Insecurity: 40.1%
- Poverty Rate: 38.1% (27.3–48.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.7%
- Diabetes: 25.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.7%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (2.7–18.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Waterproof United Methodist Church
- Myrtle Grove Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Cypress Grove Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Mark Church — 2.2 mi away
- Richland Church — 4.3 mi away
- Saint Mark Church — 4.6 mi away
- Gilfield Church — 5.1 mi away in Ferriday, LA
- Saint John Church — 5.2 mi away in Ferriday, LA
- First United MBC — 5.2 mi away
- Spring Hill Church — 5.5 mi away in St Joseph, LA
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Joseph United Methodist Church — 11.3 mi away in Saint Joseph, LA
- First United Methodist Church — 11.5 mi away in St Joseph, LA
- Sevier Memorial United Methodist Church — 14.8 mi away in Ferriday, LA
- Lovely Lane United Methodist Church — 16.4 mi away in Natchez, MS
- Washington United Methodist Church — 16.6 mi away in Natchez, MS
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