Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church
Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lake Charles, LA 70601. It is one of 227 churches in Lake Charles, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lake Charles, LA, 70601Shares a ministry location with Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Star of Bethlehem 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 Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 2,100 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: 70.7%
- Obesity: 55.7%
- Food Insecurity: 45.1%
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.7%
- Poverty Rate: 37.3% (23.8–50.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.5%
- Diabetes: 23.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (5.2–26.0%)
- Depression: 24.9%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.1–13.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lake Charles city is served by 91 churches — about one congregation for every 823 residents.
Churches near Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Calvary Assembly of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- Inner Court Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- Life Changers Church — 0.1 mi away
- Starlight Baptist Church of Lake Charles — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Throne of Grace Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- New Birth Cogic — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Henry Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Catholic Charismatic Renewal — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Starlight Baptist Church of Lake Charles — 0.2 mi away
- Twelfth Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Covenant Faith Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater St Mary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Christ Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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