Saint Marks Baptist Church
Saint Marks 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, 70053Saint Marks 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 Saint Marks 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 48.4%
- Child Poverty: 42.8% (24.1–61.6%)
- Social Isolation: 41.2%
- Food Insecurity: 38.6%
- Poverty Rate: 38.5% (26.2–50.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.5% (15.5–37.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.6%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.8%
- Depression: 25.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Gretna city is served by 22 churches — about one congregation for every 1,019 residents.
Churches near Saint Marks Baptist Church
- Good Hope Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Light of Christ Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ecclesia Family Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Westbank Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Impact Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Celebration Church — 0.4 mi away in Harvey, LA
- Household of Faith — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Gretna — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Holy Hill Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Harvey, LA
- Regular Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Second Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away