First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lafayette, LA 70501. It is one of 151 churches in Lafayette, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lafayette, LA, 70501First 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 First Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 70.0%
- Poverty Rate: 37.5% (24.4–50.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 31.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.5% (11.6–33.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
- Depression: 27.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.2%
- Obesity: 38.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lafayette city is served by 51 churches — about one congregation for every 2,480 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- First Baptist Lafayette — 0 mi away
- Acadiana Baptist Church for the Deaf — 0.1 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Ascension — 0.2 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- UL BCM — 0.3 mi away
- Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Good Hope Mission Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Acadiana Baptist Church for the Deaf — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Northside Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Good Hope Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- St Peter's Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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