New Hope Baptist Church
New Hope Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Independence, LA 70443. It is one of 31 churches in Independence, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Independence, LA, 70443New Hope 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 New Hope Baptist Church
It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 40.9%
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Depression: 31.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
- Food Insecurity: 24.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.7% (7.7–27.7%)
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (9.3–29.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Hope Baptist Church
- Macedonia Church — 0.9 mi away
- Lighthouse Church — 2.1 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church (Holden, Louisiana) — 2.6 mi away in Holden, LA
- Mount Calvary Chapel — 2.7 mi away in Amite, LA
- Bethel Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Dales Chapel — 3.5 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Tickfaw, LA
- Saint John the Baptist Chapel — 4.1 mi away
- Wood Chapel — 4.2 mi away
- Old Zion Hill Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethel Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Tickfaw, LA
- Saint John the Baptist Chapel — 4.1 mi away
- Old Zion Hill Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Montpelier Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Montpelier, LA
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