First Evening Star Baptist Church

First Evening Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Alexandria, LA 71303. It is one of 179 churches in Alexandria, and one of 66 Baptist congregations in the city.

Alexandria, LA, 71303

First Evening Star 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 Evening Star Baptist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Food Insecurity: 26.0%
  • Obesity: 40.9%
  • Social Isolation: 39.1%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
  • Diabetes: 16.1%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
  • Depression: 26.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.2% (10.0–28.4%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
  • Unemployment: 6.6% (1.4–11.9%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

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