Mt Pleasant Baptist Church
Mt Pleasant Baptist Church is a church at 11585 Highway 79 in Haynesville, LA 71038. It is one of 18 churches in Haynesville.
11585 Highway 79, Haynesville, LA, 71038Phone: (318) 624-2526 · Website: http://mtpleasantathens.com
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Mt Pleasant 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 Mt Pleasant Baptist Church
It takes 3.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 68.6%
- Obesity: 49.8%
- Poverty Rate: 47.3%
- Food Insecurity: 43.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.1%
- Diabetes: 26.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.0%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (1.8–16.4%)
- Depression: 26.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mt Pleasant Baptist Church
- Mount Pleasant Church — 0 mi away
- Forest Grove Church — 2 mi away in Emerson, AR
- Mount Hebron Church — 2.2 mi away
- Haynesville United Pentecostal Church — 2.4 mi away
- New Hope Number 1 Church — 3.5 mi away in Emerson, AR
- Westside Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Piney Grove Church — 3.7 mi away in Emerson, AR
- First Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Woodland Church of Christ in Haynesville, Louisiana — 3.7 mi away
- First Assembly of God — 3.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Westside Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away in Emerson, AR
- Brister Baptist Church — 9.1 mi away in Emerson, AR
- Mt Paran Baptist Church — 9.6 mi away in Shongaloo, LA
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