New Lights Baptist Church
New Lights Baptist Church is a church at 1105 Van Ave in Bastrop, LA 71220-2164. It is one of 98 churches in Bastrop.
1105 Van Ave, Bastrop, LA, 71220-2164Phone: +13182831514 · Website: https://louisianabaptists.org/church/new-light-baptist-church-monroe
Shares a ministry location with Highland Baptist Church.
New Lights 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 New Lights Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.
- Child Poverty: 54.0% (36.8–71.2%)
- Obesity: 51.9%
- Food Insecurity: 50.2%
- Social Isolation: 43.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.3%
- Poverty Rate: 38.7% (24.6–52.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 36.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.2%
- Diabetes: 24.2%
- Unemployment: 14.2% (4.4–24.1%)
- Depression: 25.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Lights Baptist Church
- Highland Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- New Life Temple — 0 mi away
- Van Avenue Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church Of Bastrop Inc. — 0.2 mi away
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Second Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Church of God In Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Magnolia Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Second Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Magnolia Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ivory Chapel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- West Side Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away