First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ferriday, LA 71334. It is one of 46 churches in Ferriday, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
Ferriday, LA, 71334First 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
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 89.9%
- Obesity: 51.4%
- Poverty Rate: 50.7% (36.9–64.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 44.6%
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 25.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.1%
- Unemployment: 15.6% (3.9–28.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.3%
- Depression: 25.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Frances Hall — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- The Harvest Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sixth Street Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Saint Reed Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Evening Star Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- The Harvest Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Saint Reed Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mercy Seat Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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