Saint Bonaventure Mission
Saint Bonaventure Mission is a Roman Catholic church at 10 Lenore Avenue in Thoreau, NM 87323. It is one of 10 churches in Thoreau.
St. Bonaventure Indian Mission & School is a private Catholic organization serving the Eastern Navajo Nation, helping individuals build self-sufficiency through education, employment, housing, and outreach programs that provide essential resources such as food, water, clothing, and other vital services.
10 Lenore Avenue, Thoreau, NM, 87323Saint Bonaventure Mission is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 283 congregations of the Catholic family gather across New Mexico — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
Ministries at Saint Bonaventure Mission
- Water Delivery Program
- Food Pantry
- Housing Support
- Thrift Store
- Fitness Center
- School
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The community around Saint Bonaventure Mission
It takes 4.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 47.1%
- Child Poverty: 46.8% (31.5–61.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Unemployment: 13.1% (5.3–21.2%)
- Obesity: 41.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Poverty Rate: 29.1% (20.8–37.4%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.9% (10.7–23.1%)
- Depression: 25.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Bonaventure Mission
- Dayspring Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Red Cliffs Ward — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Thoreau Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- The Potter's House — 0.6 mi away
- Crosslands Mission — 4.4 mi away
- San Antonio Mission — 5.4 mi away
- Coolidge Navajo Church — 8 mi away
- Smith Lake Church of God — 9.3 mi away in Smith Lake, NM
- Bethesda Navajo Mission — 9.3 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Crosslands Mission — 4.4 mi away
- Risen Savior Catholic Church — 10.3 mi away in Bluewater, NM
- Saint Paul Catholic Church — 19.3 mi away in Crownpoint, NM
- Saint Vivian Catholic Church — 24.2 mi away in Milan, NM
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