Zion Hill Baptist Church

Zion Hill 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.

Zion Hill was under the leadership of several men of God, respectively, Rev. O. Simon, Rev. S. S. Simmons, Rev. Don Smith, Rev. J. Todd, Rev. Elvin Wells and Rev. Samuel T. Johnson, who rebuilt the church all while serving the church for no salary.

Ferriday, LA, 71334

Service times

  • Sunday 8am
  • Sunday 10am

Phone: (844) 999-7729 · Website: https://www.zionhill.com/

Zion Hill 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.

Ministries at Zion Hill Baptist Church

  • Community Outreach
  • Matrons’ Ministry
  • ZIONITE Newsletter

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Watch

Latest from Zion Hill Church Family's YouTube channel: 8/2/2026 10 AM Service | Zion Hill Church Family | Pastor Joshua Joy Dara Sr (all videos).

The community around Zion Hill Baptist Church

It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 89.6%
  • Obesity: 49.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 48.6% (33.9–63.4%)
  • Food Insecurity: 39.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 27.4%
  • Diabetes: 24.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.2%
  • Unemployment: 17.8% (5.6–30.2%)
  • Social Isolation: 39.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
  • Transportation Barriers: 19.4%
  • Depression: 25.3%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (4.4–18.3%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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