Bens Ford Baptist Church

Bens Ford Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bogalusa, LA 70427. It is one of 64 churches in Bogalusa, and one of 30 Baptist congregations in the city.

Bogalusa, LA, 70427

Website: http://www.bensfordbc.com/

Bens Ford 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 Bens Ford Baptist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 46.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 32.6% (21.3–43.8%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
  • Food Insecurity: 29.2%
  • Diabetes: 19.0%
  • Unemployment: 15.2% (6.7–23.6%)
  • Social Isolation: 34.2%
  • Depression: 28.1%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
  • Housing Insecurity: 19.9%
  • Transportation Barriers: 14.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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