Mt Carmel Baptist Church
Mt Carmel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1865 Highway 79 in Homer, LA 71040. It is one of 38 churches in Homer, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
1865 Highway 79, Homer, LA, 71040Phone: (318) 927-3475 · Website: http://mtcarmelbaptistchurch.net
Mt Carmel 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 — 71,418 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.
Find Mt Carmel Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Mt Carmel Baptist Church
It takes 4.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 54.1% (40.1–68.1%)
- Obesity: 47.7%
- Food Insecurity: 35.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
- Poverty Rate: 30.1% (20.5–39.7%)
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.4%
- Depression: 25.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mt Carmel Baptist Church
- Oil Field Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holly Springs Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Minden, LA
- Bethlehem Church — 2.8 mi away
- Mount Paron Primitive Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Minden, LA
- Love Chapel — 2.9 mi away
- Sanctified Church — 3.5 mi away
- Oil Field Church — 3.7 mi away
- Mount Piller Church — 3.9 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Holly Springs Baptist Church — 2.5 mi away in Minden, LA
- Mount Paron Primitive Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away in Minden, LA
- Calvary Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 6.2 mi away
- Germantown Baptist Church — 7 mi away in Minden, LA