Metropolitan Baptist Church
Metropolitan 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, 70427Metropolitan 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 Metropolitan Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than 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: 50.9%
- Food Insecurity: 38.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.1%
- Diabetes: 23.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.9%
- Child Poverty: 39.2% (22.8–55.8%)
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (15.0–33.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Unemployment: 11.8% (5.0–18.6%)
- Depression: 26.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Bogalusa city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 192 residents.
Churches near Metropolitan Baptist Church
- First Thessalonians Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Salter Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Thirkield United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of God In Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Warren Street Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Antioch Holiness Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Thessalonians Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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