New Light Baptist Church
New Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70807. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70807Website: http://www.newlightmbcbr.org/
New Light 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 Light Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 79.7%
- Food Insecurity: 51.3%
- Obesity: 48.3%
- Poverty Rate: 43.1% (31.9–54.3%)
- Social Isolation: 42.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.5%
- Diabetes: 22.6%
- Unemployment: 13.4% (4.8–22.0%)
- Depression: 25.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3% (10.7–18.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near New Light Baptist Church
- Promise Land Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater King David Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- RCCG Jesus Assembly Baton Rouge — 0.7 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Vision Christian Center International — 0.7 mi away
- Puritan Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Day Fellowship Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church of Scotlandville — 0.8 mi away
- Bible Believers Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Promise Land Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater King David Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Puritan Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bible Believers Church — 0.9 mi away
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