Kentwood, First Baptist Church
Kentwood, First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 310 Avenue E in Kentwood, LA 70444-2518. It is one of 38 churches in Kentwood, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
310 Avenue E, Kentwood, LA, 70444-2518Service times
- Sunday, Wednesday 6pm · Evenings
Phone: +19852298111 · Website: https://fbckentwood.org/
Kentwood, First 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 Kentwood, 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, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.
- Obesity: 49.6%
- Child Poverty: 46.0% (30.5–61.7%)
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Food Insecurity: 36.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.9%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
- Poverty Rate: 29.4% (19.8–39.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (3.8–12.9%)
- Depression: 24.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Kentwood, First Baptist Church
- Lifeway Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kentwood Assembly of God — 0.4 mi away
- Oak Grove AME Church — 0.7 mi away
- Sweet Home Church — 0.7 mi away
- Temple Chapel Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Kentwood United Pentecostal — 1 mi away
- Orange Grove Church of God In Christ — 1.2 mi away
- Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- First Church — 2.1 mi away
- Growing In the Word Ministries — 3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sweet Home Church — 0.7 mi away
- Kentwood United Pentecostal — 1 mi away
- Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Greenlaw Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Browns Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Tangipahoa, LA
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