First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in LA 70580.
LA, 70580First 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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 54.1% (36.9–72.2%)
- Obesity: 49.3%
- Poverty Rate: 43.7% (32.1–55.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 37.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.1%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Depression: 29.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Unemployment: 10.6% (0.9–20.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Word of Faith Full Gospel Church — 0.9 mi away in Mamou, LA
- Sanctuary of Praise — 2 mi away in Mamou, LA
- Chapel of the Holy Spirit — 2.3 mi away in Ville Platte, LA
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Mamou, LA
- Zion Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Mamou, LA
- First Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Mamou, LA
- Saint Ann Catholic Church — 2.7 mi away in Mamou, LA
- Mamou Church of Christ — 3.1 mi away in Mamou, LA
- Saint Teresa Church — 3.2 mi away in Mamou, LA
- New Life Outreach Ministry of Mamou — 4.8 mi away in Mamou, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Mamou, LA
- Zion Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away in Mamou, LA
- First Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Mamou, LA
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 8 mi away in Ville Platte, LA
- Disciples Baptist Church — 8 mi away in Ville Platte, LA