Mount Canaan Baptist Church
Mount Canaan Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70805. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 163 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70805Mount Canaan Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,417 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 Mount Canaan Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 6 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 60.9%
- Obesity: 52.3%
- Child Poverty: 52.3% (32.7–71.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 47.3%
- Poverty Rate: 44.5% (32.5–56.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 44.0%
- Social Isolation: 43.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 40.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 38.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 32.3%
- Diabetes: 27.5%
- Depression: 27.5%
- Unemployment: 11.7% (2.3–21.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near Mount Canaan Baptist Church
- Brookstown Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Life Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Oasis Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Bible Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Southern Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Carmel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jesus Christ Is Lord Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Believers Faith Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace and Compassion Church — 0.6 mi away
- Memorial Chapel of God — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Brookstown Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Bible Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Carmel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Philadelphia Full Gospel — 0.8 mi away
- Bethel Primitive Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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