First Baptist Church of Florien
First Baptist Church of Florien is a Baptist church at 125 E Port Arthur Ave in Florien, LA 71429. It is one of 27 churches in Florien, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to cherish Christ collectively and to actively make disciples who will, in turn, make disciples.
First Baptist Church of Florien is a Southern Baptist congregation located in the heart of the village of Florien.
125 E Port Arthur Ave, Florien, LA, 71429Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · Morning begins with prayer in Choir room
Phone: (318) 586-3328 · Website: http://firstbaptistflorien.com/
First Baptist Church of Florien 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 Florien
It takes 5.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Obesity: 45.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
- Food Insecurity: 24.4%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
- Child Poverty: 27.2% (13.7–40.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.9% (13.9–27.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.1–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Florien
- Bright Star Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ebenezer Church — 1.2 mi away
- Prospect United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Union Church — 1.8 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- New Pilgrim Star Church — 2 mi away
- Pilgrim Star Baptist — 2.1 mi away
- Gandy Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Old Pilgrim Star Church — 2.5 mi away
- Oak Grove Church — 3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Gandy Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away
- Toro Missionary Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Hornbeck, LA
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away
- Plainview Baptist Church — 5.6 mi away in Hornbeck, LA