True Light Baptist Church
True Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 4401 Poydras Bayou Rd in Lakeland, LA 70752. It is one of 2 churches in Lakeland.
Building relationships to advance the gospel and mature in Christ
We are a Bible believing church, members of the Southern Baptist Convention, and supporter of the Baptist Faith and Message (2001). Although conservative in our beliefs, we offer a relevant blended worship style. Our worship songs come from both traditional hymns and contemporary praise songs. We have a come as you are atmosphere without a legalistic dress code. We seek to grow in the knowledge and worship of God through Sunday morning small groups, worship services, and Bible studies.
4401 Poydras Bayou Rd, Lakeland, LA, 70752Service times
- Sunday 9:45am · School
Phone: (225) 627-5268 · Website: https://www.erwinvillebaptist.org/
True Light Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,418 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.
Ministries at True Light Baptist Church
- Kidz Church
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The community around True Light Baptist Church
It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Poverty Rate: 23.7% (12.2–35.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.0%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
- Unemployment: 9.3% (2.9–15.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near True Light Baptist Church
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Alma Church — 1 mi away in Rougon, LA
- Saint Ambrose Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 2.4 mi away
- Saint Marks Church — 2.6 mi away
- Saint Peters Church — 3 mi away
- St Peter Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Port Allen, LA
- Our Lady of the Lake — 3.4 mi away in Erwinville, LA
- Bueche Church — 3.9 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 4.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Alma Church — 1 mi away in Rougon, LA
- St Peter Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Port Allen, LA
- Erwinville Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Port Allen, LA
- Greater Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Port Allen, LA
- First Baptist Church — 7.3 mi away in New Roads, LA