First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Abbeville, LA 70510. It is one of 36 churches in Abbeville, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Abbeville, LA, 70510First 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 — 71,418 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
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 49.4%
- Food Insecurity: 39.2%
- Poverty Rate: 37.6% (24.4–50.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.2%
- Diabetes: 22.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.0%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Depression: 27.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.9–10.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Abbeville city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 594 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- St Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Abbeville United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Carmel Convent — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary Magdalen Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Mary Congregational Church — 0.3 mi away
- Vermilion Full Gospel Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Church Abbeville — 0.4 mi away
- First Holy Ghost Cogic — 0.4 mi away
- Adonai's House of Prayer — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Triumph Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Pleasant Green Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Charity Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Erath Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away in Erath, LA
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