First Missionary Baptist Church
First Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Covington, LA 70433. It is one of 69 churches in Covington, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Covington, LA, 70433Website: http://firstmissionarybaptistchurch.net/
First 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 First Missionary 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand 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: 27.3%
- Obesity: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Depression: 26.0%
- Poverty Rate: 19.8% (9.6–30.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Covington city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 1,247 residents.
Churches near First Missionary Baptist Church
- Church of Jesus Deliverance Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Doughty Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Starlight Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Peter the Aleut Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Reform Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Unity Northshore — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Temple Church of Christ Holiness USA — 0.3 mi away
- Cultivation Church — 0.3 mi away
- Northlake First Assembly of God — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Starlight Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Tammany Hills Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away
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