Gandy Baptist Church
Gandy Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Florien, LA 71429. It is one of 27 churches in Florien, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Florien, LA, 71429Gandy 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 Gandy Baptist Church
It takes 6.6 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: 43.5%
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Depression: 28.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Food Insecurity: 21.1%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.5%
- Poverty Rate: 16.8% (10.2–23.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gandy Baptist Church
- Union Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Union Church — 1 mi away
- Prospect United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Florien — 2.5 mi away
- Bright Star Church — 2.7 mi away
- Old Pilgrim Star Church — 2.9 mi away
- Toro Missionary Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Hornbeck, LA
- Pilgrim Star Baptist — 3.1 mi away
- New Pilgrim Star Church — 3.2 mi away
- Ebenezer Church — 3.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Florien — 2.5 mi away
- Toro Missionary Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Hornbeck, LA
- Plainview Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Hornbeck, LA
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away