Rose of Sharon Baptist Church
Rose of Sharon Baptist Church is a church at 312 Old Rafe Meyer Rd in Baton Rouge, LA 70807-1182. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge.
312 Old Rafe Meyer Rd, Baton Rouge, LA, 70807-1182Phone: +12257756853 · Website: https://www.roseofsharonbchurch.com/about-us.html
Rose of Sharon 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 Rose of Sharon Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 39.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.7%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.5%
- Poverty Rate: 27.8% (17.6–38.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (1.7–17.7%)
- Depression: 26.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Rose of Sharon Baptist Church
- Mt Bethel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Gideon Church — 1.2 mi away in Jackson, LA
- St Paul's Free Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Baker, LA
- Mount Vernon Church Number 2 — 2.1 mi away in Baker, LA
- Greater King David Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- 12 Keys Ministry — 2.3 mi away in Baker, LA
- New Light Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- The Example Apostolic Ministries — 2.4 mi away in Baker, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Greater King David Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- New Light Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Promise Land Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
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