New Bethel Baptist Church
New Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70802. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 163 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70802New Bethel 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 — 71,418 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 Bethel Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 about 1 in 5 households fear the power or water being shut off. That is 2,200 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: 30.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.5%
- Unemployment: 15.4% (8.3–22.6%)
- Obesity: 40.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Poverty Rate: 24.4% (15.4–33.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Depression: 26.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near New Bethel Baptist Church
- Little Rising Sun Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Ark Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- McKowen Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- McKowen Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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