Forest Aid Church

The community around Forest Aid Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

• Food Insecurity: 27.9%
• Diabetes: 18.5%
• Obesity: 42.5%
• Social Isolation: 37.2%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
• Poverty Rate: 26.9% (18.2–35.5%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
• Unemployment: 9.0% (1.2–16.8%)
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.4%
• Child Poverty: 28.1% (12.5–43.7%)
• Depression: 25.8%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.6%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.7%

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

Churches near Forest Aid Church

• Providence Missionary Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
• Mount Pilgrim Church — 2.1 mi away in Vidalia, LA
• Riverside Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Vidalia, LA
• Zion Hill Church — 2.3 mi away
• Cloverdale Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away
• Greater New Bethlehem Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
• Crosspoint Church — 2.7 mi away
• Young's Chapel Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Vidalia, LA
• Mt Zion Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 2.9 mi away