Prosperity Baptist Church
Prosperity Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ruston, LA 71270. It is one of 83 churches in Ruston, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
Ruston, LA, 71270Prosperity 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 Prosperity Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Prosperity Baptist Church
It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 61.2% (45.0–77.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 44.5%
- Food Insecurity: 28.1%
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Depression: 30.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (1.1–14.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Prosperity Baptist Church
- Ansley Union Church — 2.3 mi away
- Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Prospect Church — 3.8 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Church — 4.2 mi away
- Springhill Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Christ Temple Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away
- Springhill CME Church — 5.5 mi away
- Quitman First Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away in Quitman, LA
- Quitman United Methodist Church — 5.7 mi away in Quitman, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Springhill Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Christ Temple Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away
- Quitman First Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away in Quitman, LA
- University Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away