First Baptist Church
First 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, 70427First 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 First Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 49.4%
- Child Poverty: 46.8% (29.7–63.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 35.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.3%
- Poverty Rate: 33.5% (22.8–44.3%)
- Diabetes: 21.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.1%
- Unemployment: 14.1% (6.4–21.7%)
- Social Isolation: 34.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Depression: 27.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bogalusa city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 192 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Elizabeth Sullivan Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Annunciation Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westside Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Zion Church — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Christian Fellowship — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Matthews Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Superior Avenue Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Main Street Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Salter Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westside Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Superior Avenue Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Main Street Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
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