First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Chalmette, LA 70043. It is one of 14 churches in Chalmette.
Chalmette, LA, 70043First 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 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 26.5%
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Depression: 29.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.5%
- Poverty Rate: 23.8% (15.2–32.5%)
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Child Poverty: 25.2% (8.5–43.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (2.0–12.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Bernard United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Covenant United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- High Praise Fellowship South — 0.6 mi away
- Gethsemane Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Marys Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 1.2 mi away
- Chalmette church of Christ — 1.3 mi away
- St Bernard Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Second Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- Second Nazarene Baptist Church of Algiers — 1.6 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- First Baptist Church of Arabi — 2.4 mi away in Arabi, LA
- Oak Park Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in New Orleans, LA
- Holy Bible Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in New Orleans, LA
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