First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gueydan, LA 70542. It is one of 6 churches in Gueydan.
Gueydan, LA, 70542First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 5.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Depression: 29.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Food Insecurity: 20.6%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (4.2–15.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Child Poverty: 26.9% (10.7–43.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.1% (12.8–29.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Gueydan United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gueydan International Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hubbard United Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- St John The Baptist Catholic Church — 6.9 mi away in Morse, LA
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 6.9 mi away in Morse, LA
- Saint Davids Church — 7.2 mi away
- The Holy Ghost Chapel — 8.9 mi away in Morse, LA
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 9.2 mi away in Crowley, LA