Union Avenue Missionary Baptist Church
Union Avenue Missionary 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, 70427Union Avenue Missionary 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 Union Avenue Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 47.0%
- Child Poverty: 40.8% (23.6–58.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 33.5% (22.8–44.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Food Insecurity: 30.4%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Unemployment: 14.4% (6.1–22.7%)
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.9%
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 Union Avenue Missionary Baptist Church
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Superior Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Terrace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Zion Church — 0.8 mi away
- Monroe Street Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- New Life UPC — 1 mi away
- Saint Matthews Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Superior Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Terrace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Monroe Street Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
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