First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Coushatta, LA 71019. It is one of 39 churches in Coushatta, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
Coushatta, LA, 71019First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,352 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
It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 54.7% (37.1–72.4%)
- Obesity: 46.9%
- Food Insecurity: 38.7%
- Poverty Rate: 36.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.1%
- Diabetes: 22.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.6%
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Depression: 25.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hamilton Church — 1.7 mi away
- Open Door Fellowship — 1.9 mi away
- Apostolic Church — 2.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 2.3 mi away in Edgefield, LA
- Saint George Catholic Church — 2.3 mi away
- Magnolia Church — 2.7 mi away
- New Beginnings Faith Ministries — 3.1 mi away
- Liberty Hill Church — 3.7 mi away
- Mary Magdalene Church — 4.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Open Door Fellowship — 1.9 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away
- Martin Baptist Church — 8.8 mi away in Martin, LA
- Fairview Church — 9.3 mi away
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