Kedron Baptist Church
Kedron Baptist Church is a church at 922 Highway 1046 in Amite, LA 70422-7036. It is one of 45 churches in Amite.
922 Highway 1046, Amite, LA, 70422-7036Phone: +19857485093 · Website: https://louisianabaptists.org/church/kedron-baptist-church-amite
Kedron 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 Kedron Baptist Church
It takes 4.0 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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: 46.2%
- Food Insecurity: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.8%
- Diabetes: 21.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 14.9% (5.5–24.5%)
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Child Poverty: 30.4% (14.8–48.1%)
- Poverty Rate: 28.7% (18.2–39.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.7%
- Depression: 25.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Kedron Baptist Church
- Rick Chapel — 1.3 mi away
- Kedron Church — 2.2 mi away
- Rocky Hill Church — 2.4 mi away
- Huff Chapel — 2.4 mi away
- Saint Mary Church — 2.7 mi away in Greensburg, LA
- First United Church of God In Christ — 2.8 mi away
- Morris Chapel Church of God In Christ — 2.9 mi away
- Holly Hill Church — 2.9 mi away
- Pine Hill Church — 3 mi away
- Emmanuel Church — 3.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Montpelier Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away in Montpelier, LA
- First Baptist Church of Arcola — 5.7 mi away in Roseland, LA
- Nazareth Missionary Baptist Church — 6.4 mi away in Amite City, LA
- Little Bethel Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Amite City, LA
- Montpelier Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away