Evening Star Baptist Church
Evening Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Harvey, LA 70058. It is one of 46 churches in Harvey, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
Harvey, LA, 70058Evening Star 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 Evening Star 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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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: 50.5% (33.5–69.4%)
- Obesity: 49.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Food Insecurity: 38.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 33.6% (22.6–44.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 27.5%
- Diabetes: 22.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.0% (10.4–29.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Depression: 25.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (2.2–12.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Evening Star Baptist Church
- River Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bible Way Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Infant Jesus of Prague Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel Assembly of God Church — 0.5 mi away
- White Chapel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Empowerment Church NOLA — 0.6 mi away
- Harvest Time Fellowship — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Rosalie Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- City Church Westbank — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Bible — 0.7 mi away
- Greater Mount Nebo Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Israel Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Marrero — 0.9 mi away in Marrero, LA