St. John's United Methodist Church

St. John's United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 230 Renee Dr in Baton Rouge, LA 70810-4059. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.

At St. John’s, we are making disciples of Jesus Christ by loving God, growing together in faith, and serving our neighbors with compassion.

St. John’s United Methodist Church was founded in June 1961 by 60 charter members under the leadership of Pastor Thomas Babington III.

Serving since 1961 · Part of Southeast District

230 Renee Dr, Baton Rouge, LA, 70810-4059

Service times

  • Sunday 9:45am–10:45am · School -

Phone: +12257664594 · Website: https://stjohnsbr.org/

Shares a ministry location with Saint Joseph Church.

St. John's United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 432 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.

Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.

Ministries at St. John's United Methodist Church

  • Food pantry
  • Tutoring programs

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The community around St. John's United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 nearly a quarter 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.

  • Social Isolation: 36.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 23.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
  • Depression: 25.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.1% (10.9–25.3%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
  • Diabetes: 13.1%
  • Unemployment: 7.9% (3.4–12.4%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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