Greater St Mary Missionary Baptist Church
Greater St Mary Missionary Baptist Church is a church at 1801 2nd Ave in Lake Charles, LA 70601-6431. It is one of 227 churches in Lake Charles.
1801 2nd Ave, Lake Charles, LA, 70601-6431Phone: 13374330122 · Website: https://www.gsmmbc.net/
Shares a ministry location with First Presbyterian Church.
Greater St Mary Missionary 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 Greater St Mary Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 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: 66.3%
- Obesity: 56.0%
- Food Insecurity: 47.6%
- Poverty Rate: 42.3% (29.2–55.4%)
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.5%
- Diabetes: 24.0%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (2.5–22.0%)
- Depression: 26.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (5.5–22.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater St Mary Missionary Baptist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Starlight Baptist Church of Lake Charles — 0.5 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Warren United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Oak Park United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Metropolitan Baptist — 0.6 mi away
- Life Changers Church — 0.6 mi away
- Inner Court Worship Center — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Assembly of God Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Starlight Baptist Church of Lake Charles — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Metropolitan Baptist — 0.6 mi away
- New Covenant Faith Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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