East Ridge Baptist Church
East Ridge Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 5400 LA-397 in Iowa, LA 70607. It is one of 12 churches in Iowa, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
We are a Southern Baptist Church that was formed in 2005 by the merging of Twelfth Street Baptist and Murray Street Baptist churches.
5400 LA-397, Iowa, LA, 70607Service times
- Sunday 6:30pm · Evening
Phone: +13374777117 · Website: https://erbc-lakecharles.com/
East Ridge 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.
Find East Ridge Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around East Ridge Baptist Church
In the few miles around 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 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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: 45.6%
- Food Insecurity: 28.6%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Depression: 29.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
- Poverty Rate: 23.6% (13.9–33.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.3%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (2.5–16.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (7.3–17.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near East Ridge Baptist Church
- First Presbyterian Church of Lake Charles — 1.9 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
- Grace Point Christian Fellowship — 1.9 mi away in Denton, TX
- First Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
- Christ Bethel Fellowship — 2.1 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
- New Life Church International — 2.6 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
- Word of Hope Family Worship Center — 2.9 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
- The River — 3.1 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
- Jehovah's Witnesses — 3.2 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
- Water's Edge Gathering — 3.2 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
- Faith Bible Church of Lake Charles — 3.2 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
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- Word of Hope Family Worship Center — 2.9 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
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- Open Gate Cowboy Church — 3.4 mi away in Lake Charles, LA
- Tarsus Bible Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away in Lake Charles, LA