First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 4017 W MAIN STREET, JEANERETTE, LA, 70544 in Jeanerette, LA 70544-3200. It is one of 25 churches in Jeanerette.
4017 W MAIN STREET, JEANERETTE, LA, 70544, Jeanerette, LA, 70544-3200Phone: (337) 276-4233 · Website: https://www.fbcjeanerette.com/
First 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.
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.
- Unemployment: 14.7% (3.5–26.1%)
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Depression: 27.1%
- Food Insecurity: 24.6%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Poverty Rate: 19.4% (8.3–30.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Jubilee Nation Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Champions Life Family Church — 0.5 mi away
- Morning Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Marks Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Mark Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kingdom of God Church of Jeanerette — 1.4 mi away
- First Church of God in Christ — 1.5 mi away
- Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 1.5 mi away
- Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church — 1.7 mi away
- Calvary Presbyterian Church — 1.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Morning Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Mark Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Saint Thomas Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away in New Iberia, LA
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