First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2999 Schambers St in Basile, LA 70515-5445. It is one of 3 churches in Basile.
Helping every person believe in Jesus Christ, belong to a family of faith, and become a disciple through the love of God.
2999 Schambers St, Basile, LA, 70515-5445Phone: +13374326810 · Website: https://www.fbcbasile.com/
First 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 Baptist Church
It takes 4.2 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 41.7%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Depression: 29.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Food Insecurity: 23.9%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (2.0–13.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Greater Golden Light Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. Augustine Catholic Church: Basile, Louisiana — 2.7 mi away
- Saint Ann Church — 5.4 mi away in Elton, LA
- Saint Monica Church — 5.5 mi away in Eunice, LA
- Elton United Methodist Church — 5.8 mi away in Elton, LA
- First Baptist Church of Elton — 5.9 mi away in Elton, LA
- Saint Paul Catholic Church — 5.9 mi away in Elton, LA
- St Pauls Catholic Church — 5.9 mi away in Elton, LA
- United Pentecostal Church — 6.2 mi away in Elton, LA
- Mt Pilgrim Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away in Elton, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 10.2 mi away in Eunice, LA
- First Baptist Church — 10.6 mi away in Eunice, LA
- Golden Star Baptist Church — 10.8 mi away in Eunice, LA
- North Eunice Baptist Church — 10.9 mi away in Eunice, LA
- Freedom Baptist Church — 11.2 mi away in Eunice, LA