Sparta Baptist Church
Sparta Baptist Church is a Baptist church in LA 71008.
LA, 71008Sparta Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,417 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
Find Sparta Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Sparta Baptist Church
It takes 8.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter 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: 56.1% (38.1–74.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
- Food Insecurity: 27.2%
- Diabetes: 19.7%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Depression: 28.2%
- Poverty Rate: 24.6% (15.3–33.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sparta Baptist Church
- Mount Olive Church — 3 mi away
- Cypress Springs Church — 3.6 mi away in Gibsland, LA
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Bienville, LA
- Mount Zion Church — 5.4 mi away
- Madden Church — 6.3 mi away in Dubberly, LA
- First Baptist Church of Bienville — 6.4 mi away in Bienville, LA
- Mount Kingdom Church — 6.5 mi away
- New Friendship Church Number 1 — 7.5 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Church — 7.5 mi away in Gibsland, LA
- Old Castor Church — 7.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away in Bienville, LA
- Jamestown Baptist Church — 8 mi away in Jamestown, LA
- Mount Lebanon Baptist Church — 9.2 mi away in Mount Lebanon, LA
- First Baptist Church — 11.1 mi away in Gibsland, LA
- Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 11.3 mi away