New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church
New Prospect Missionary 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 Prospect Missionary 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 Prospect Missionary 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 about 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.
- Food Insecurity: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 31.7% (19.8–43.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.4%
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Unemployment: 16.7% (8.9–24.6%)
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Depression: 26.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 Prospect Missionary Baptist Church
- Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Ark Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- McKowen Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Emanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- McKowen Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Emanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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