First Community Baptist Church
First Community Baptist Church is a church at 2320 Elaine St in Lake Charles, LA 70601-4872. It is one of 227 churches in Lake Charles.
2320 Elaine St, Lake Charles, LA, 70601-4872Phone: +13374395227 · Website: http://www.fbclc.com
First Community 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 Community Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 82.4%
- Obesity: 55.1%
- Food Insecurity: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.1%
- Poverty Rate: 35.9% (23.0–48.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.9%
- Diabetes: 24.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.6%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.1% (4.0–20.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Community Baptist Church
- Mill Street Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Jerusalem B.C ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Catholic Charismatic Renewal — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Henry Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Eastdale Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Mission Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Moriah Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Christ Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Eastdale Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Mission Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Moriah Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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