Hillcrest Baptist Church
Hillcrest Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lake Charles, LA 70615. It is one of 227 churches in Lake Charles, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lake Charles, LA, 70615Hillcrest 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 Hillcrest Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 nearly 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: 70.6%
- Obesity: 53.2%
- Social Isolation: 40.5%
- Food Insecurity: 40.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.7%
- Poverty Rate: 32.4% (20.2–44.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.0%
- Diabetes: 21.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.0%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (1.9–15.2%)
- Depression: 24.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (4.3–21.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lake Charles city is served by 91 churches — about one congregation for every 823 residents.
Churches near Hillcrest Baptist Church
- Twelfth Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Covenant Faith Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Fathers House — 0.5 mi away
- True Light Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Birth Cogic — 0.7 mi away
- St John Holiness Church — 0.7 mi away
- Throne of Grace Fellowship — 0.7 mi away
- Mossville Truth Tabernacle — 0.7 mi away
- Greater Faith Ministries — 0.8 mi away
- Church of the King — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Twelfth Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Covenant Faith Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Tarsus Bible Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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