Mt Pleasant Baptist Church
Mt Pleasant Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 18307 Old Covington Hwy in Hammond, LA 70403-0658. It is one of 99 churches in Hammond, and one of 19 Baptist congregations in the city.
The Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is committed to Building the Kingdom of God one soul at a time through seeking and saving the lost, spiritual growth, service and social engagement.
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church was organized in 1866 in the old Floris School that was located on Frying Pan Road.
Serving since 1866
18307 Old Covington Hwy, Hammond, LA, 70403-0658Service times
Sundays | 7:00 - 7:30 pm (as listed)
Phone: (985) 345-3417 · Website: https://www.mtpleasantbaptist.org/
Shares a ministry location with New Mount Pleasant Church.
Mt Pleasant Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,419 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.
Ministries at Mt Pleasant Baptist Church
- Senior Citizen Ministry
- Education Ministry
- Socio-Economic Empowerment (S.E.E.) Ministry
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The community around Mt Pleasant 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 live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 42.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Food Insecurity: 21.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Depression: 26.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.0%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mt Pleasant Baptist Church
- New Mount Pleasant Church — 0 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church Number 1 — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Ridge Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- The Vine Church — 1.3 mi away
- New Star Church — 1.3 mi away
- Unity Kingdom Fellowship Church — 1.4 mi away
- Coburn Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.9 mi away
- Pineview Church — 1.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Victory Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Coburn Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Woodland Park Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away