Gooden Lake Church

The community around Gooden Lake Church

It takes 6.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.

• Obesity: 53.4%
• Child Poverty: 48.6% (33.6–63.6%)
• Food Insecurity: 42.7%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.7%
• Housing Insecurity: 29.8%
• Diabetes: 25.2%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.3%
• Transportation Barriers: 22.2%
• Unemployment: 16.9% (7.4–26.4%)
• Social Isolation: 39.7%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.8%
• Poverty Rate: 29.1% (19.6–38.6%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.9% (8.9–20.9%)

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

Churches near Gooden Lake Church

• Holiness Church — 1.4 mi away
• Shiloh Church — 4.8 mi away
• Mount Vernon Church — 5 mi away
• Cold Lake Church — 5 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 5.5 mi away
• Short Jerusalem Church — 5.6 mi away
• Zion Traveler Church — 5.6 mi away
• Daybreak Chapel — 5.7 mi away
• Goodwill Baptist Church — 6 mi away
• New Life St. Paul COGIC — 6.2 mi away