Mount Zion Baptist Church
Mount Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gretna, LA 70053. It is one of 63 churches in Gretna, and one of 9 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gretna, LA, 70053Mount Zion 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 — 71,874 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 Mount Zion Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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: 61.8% (42.6–81.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.3%
- Obesity: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.4%
- Poverty Rate: 23.4% (10.8–36.0%)
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.2% (4.6–25.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
- Depression: 25.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gretna city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 1,019 residents.
Churches near Mount Zion Baptist Church
- Christian Life Bible Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Regular Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Boynton United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Jefferson Parish Finance Department — 0.4 mi away
- Gretna Covenant Church — 0.5 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Regular Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Marks Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Second Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Pauls Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Second Good Shepherd Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in New Orleans, LA