Beacon Light Baptist Church
Beacon Light Baptist Church is a church at 500 E Hanson Ave in Hammond, LA 70403-4342. It is one of 99 churches in Hammond.
500 E Hanson Ave, Hammond, LA, 70403-4342Phone: +19854297545 · Website: https://www.beaconlightofhammond.org/
Shares a ministry location with Woodland Park Baptist Church.
Beacon Light 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 Beacon Light Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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.
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Food Insecurity: 29.7%
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Child Poverty: 35.0% (16.3–53.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Poverty Rate: 29.5% (19.2–39.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.5%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
- Depression: 25.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Beacon Light Baptist Church
- Woodland Park Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Hanson Avenue Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Outreach Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- Hammond Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Oakgrove Church of Christ Holiness — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Showers of Blessing Deliverance Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.3 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Liberty Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Baptist Student Center — 0.9 mi away