Jerusalem Baptist Church
Jerusalem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Hammond, LA 70403. It is one of 99 churches in Hammond, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Hammond, LA, 70403Jerusalem 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 Jerusalem Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 44.5% (26.1–63.4%)
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Poverty Rate: 27.5% (16.2–38.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.5%
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.3%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (0.2–12.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Jerusalem Baptist Church
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Macedonia Church — 0.8 mi away
- Community Church of Springfield — 1.2 mi away in Springfield, LA
- Grace Fellowship Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Springfield, LA
- Galilee Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Springfield, LA
- Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church — 1.7 mi away in Springfield, LA
- First United Methodist Church of Springfield — 1.7 mi away in Springfield, LA
- First Baptist Church of Springfield — 1.7 mi away in Springfield, LA
- Saint James Church — 2 mi away in Springfield, LA
- Baptist Pumpkin Center — 2.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Community Church of Springfield — 1.2 mi away in Springfield, LA
- Galilee Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Springfield, LA
- First Baptist Church of Springfield — 1.7 mi away in Springfield, LA
- Bible Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away