True Light Baptist Church
True Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Baton Rouge, LA 70806. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70806Website: http://www.truelightbaptist.org/
True 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 True Light Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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: 31.1%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.9%
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.4%
- Depression: 24.9%
- Poverty Rate: 19.4% (10.5–28.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
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 True Light Baptist Church
- Greater Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Hughes United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Evergreen Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Elm Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Mariah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Moriah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Evergreen Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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