First Baptist Church of Smoke Bend

First Baptist Church of Smoke Bend is a church at 35058 Highway 1 N in Donaldsonville, LA 70346-9557. It is one of 30 churches in Donaldsonville.

35058 Highway 1 N, Donaldsonville, LA, 70346-9557

Phone: +12254733515 · Website: http://first-baptist-church-of-smoke-bend.hub.biz

First Baptist Church of Smoke Bend 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 of Smoke Bend

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 52.3%
  • Food Insecurity: 33.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
  • Diabetes: 20.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.5%
  • Obesity: 44.5%
  • Social Isolation: 37.3%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 28.1% (14.4–41.7%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 24.5%
  • Unemployment: 11.3% (0.8–21.8%)
  • Depression: 25.0%
  • Transportation Barriers: 16.2%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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