Melody Lane Church

The community around Melody Lane Church

It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

• Unemployment: 16.4% (3.3–29.6%)
• Obesity: 42.2%
• Social Isolation: 35.9%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
• Poverty Rate: 26.3% (13.3–39.3%)
• Food Insecurity: 21.0%
• Diabetes: 16.9%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (5.8–16.4%)

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

Churches near Melody Lane Church

• Family Life Church — 1.2 mi away
• Three Rivers Assembly of God — 1.8 mi away
• Pinecrest Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Ridglea Heights Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
• Clark Bayou Church — 2.1 mi away
• New Jerusalem Church of God — 2.5 mi away
• Antioch Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
• Wells Church — 2.7 mi away
• Canaan Assembly of God — 2.9 mi away
• Grace and Truth Baptist Church — 3.5 mi away