New Canaan Baptist Church
New Canaan Baptist Church is a church at 2160 Highland Rd in Baton Rouge, LA 70802-7244. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge.
2160 Highland Rd, Baton Rouge, LA, 70802-7244Phone: (225) 256-1245 · Website: http://www.newcanaanchurch.org/
New 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 — 71,418 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 Canaan 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Poverty Rate: 38.5% (26.8–50.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.4%
- Depression: 28.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (2.1–15.5%)
- Obesity: 39.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Canaan Baptist Church
- Greater Antioch Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sweethome Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Gillion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Mount Gideon Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Neely United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Antioch Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sweethome Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Gillion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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