University Baptist Church
University Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lake Charles, LA 70605. It is one of 227 churches in Lake Charles, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lake Charles, LA, 70605Website: http://www.universitybaptistchurch.com/
University 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 University 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 a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Depression: 27.2%
- Obesity: 38.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.0%
- Food Insecurity: 15.7%
Source: CDC PLACES (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 University Baptist Church
- Waters Edge Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- St John Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away
- Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- South City Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Just For Jesus — 0.7 mi away
- Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Power Church International — 0.7 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Trinity Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Sale Street Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Heritage Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
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