New Ark Baptist Church
New Ark Baptist Church is a church at 1344 Terrace Ave in Baton Rouge, LA 70802-4967. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge.
1344 Terrace Ave, Baton Rouge, LA, 70802-4967Phone: (225) 963-6040 · Website: http://newarkbaptistbr.org/
New Ark 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 — 71,419 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 Ark Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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: 34.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.8%
- Diabetes: 18.5%
- Unemployment: 16.5% (9.1–24.1%)
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Poverty Rate: 28.9% (17.8–39.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.9%
- Depression: 26.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Ark Baptist Church
- McKowen Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Little Rising Sun Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- McKowen Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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