Shady Grove Baptist Church
Shady Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 16443 Plank Road in Baker, LA 70714. It is one of 33 churches in Baker, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to make Disciples, and raise a generation who will live for God, and share Jesus with someone else.
To build on the foundation that has been laid by the Apostles and Jesus Christ, being the Chief Corner Stone.
Part of Mid-City Fellowship
16443 Plank Road, Baker, LA, 70714Service times
- Wednesday 7pm
Phone: (225) 774-4006 · Website: https://www.shadygrovefmbcbaker.com/
Shady Grove 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 Shady Grove Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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: 29.5%
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.4%
- Child Poverty: 30.9% (14.3–47.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Poverty Rate: 25.7% (12.6–38.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
- Unemployment: 10.6% (3.5–17.6%)
- Depression: 24.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Shady Grove Baptist Church
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Evening Star Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Beginnings Baptist Fellowship Church — 1.2 mi away
- New Covenant Christian Church — 1.3 mi away
- Praise and Worship Center House — 1.3 mi away
- Restore Church — 1.3 mi away
- Love Fellowship Ministry — 1.7 mi away
- Greater First Church Baptist — 1.8 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.9 mi away
- Baker Church of the Nazarene — 2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Evening Star Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Beginnings Baptist Fellowship Church — 1.2 mi away
- Greater First Church Baptist — 1.8 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Harding Street Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away