Bethany Baptist Church
Bethany Baptist Church is a Baptist church in LA 71357.
LA, 71357Bethany Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,872 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 Bethany Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethany Baptist Church
It takes 11.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 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.
- Obesity: 46.5%
- Child Poverty: 43.1% (26.5–59.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.1%
- Food Insecurity: 29.9%
- Diabetes: 21.9%
- Unemployment: 13.4% (5.1–21.7%)
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Poverty Rate: 25.0% (15.0–34.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.9%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethany Baptist Church
- Church of Christ — 3.2 mi away
- Morning Star Church — 4.4 mi away
- Shackleford Church — 4.4 mi away
- Broadroom Church — 5.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Newellton, LA
- Magnolia Church — 6.1 mi away
- Solomon Church — 6.2 mi away
- Shackleford Church — 6.3 mi away
- Shilake Church — 7 mi away
- Saint Peter Church — 7.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Newellton, LA
- Maryland Baptist Church — 11 mi away in St Joseph, LA
- Eureka Baptist Church — 15.9 mi away in Gilbert, LA
- Choctaw Baptist Church — 15.9 mi away in Waterproof, LA
- Bayou Macon Baptist Church — 16.1 mi away in Gilbert, LA