Elizabeth Baptist Church
Elizabeth Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 301 Old Bellevue Rd in Benton, LA 71006-9403. It is one of 35 churches in Benton, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.
EBC exists to worship God and live out His calling — as a multiethnic, multigenerational church where people from all walks of life are invited to follow Jesus, grow in faith, and build meaningful community!
Elizabeth Baptist Church (EBC) was founded and organized on May 15, 1883 in Benton, Louisiana by the late Minister Samuel Ralph.
Serving since 1883
301 Old Bellevue Rd, Benton, LA, 71006-9403Phone: (318) 965-2592 · Website: https://ebcbenton.org/
Elizabeth 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 — 71,420 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.
Ministries at Elizabeth Baptist Church
- Marriage Enrichment Fellowship
- G-Men Ministry
- Women’s Ministry
- Radio and Television Outreach Ministry
- Nursing Home Ministry
- Sound/Video Ministry
- Juvenile Detention Center Ministry
- Real-for-Christ Ministry for Teens
- Christian Kids’ Outreach for Children
- Golden Vessels Ministry for Seniors
- Young Adult Ministry
- New Members Orientation
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The community around Elizabeth Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Depression: 27.1%
- Food Insecurity: 20.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Child Poverty: 23.5% (6.9–41.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 16.7% (8.3–25.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Elizabeth Baptist Church
- Mary-Queen of Heaven Chapel — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Benton — 0.7 mi away
- Fellowship Bible Church — 0.9 mi away
- Greater New Zion Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Queen Ester Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Carolina Bluff United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Believers Worship Center Assemblies of God — 1.5 mi away
- North Calvary Tabernacle — 1.7 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 1.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Benton — 0.7 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Cypress Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Shreveport, LA