Oakland Baptist Church
Oakland Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lecompte, LA 71346. It is one of 11 churches in Lecompte, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Lecompte, LA, 71346Oakland 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 Oakland Baptist Church
It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 26.2%
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Depression: 27.1%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (12.9–26.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Oakland Baptist Church
- Lamourie Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Second Union Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- Cedar Grove Church — 4 mi away
- Riverview Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- Mount Lebanon Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
- Mary the Mother of Jesus Catholic Church — 4.7 mi away in South Woodworth, LA
- Calvary Woodworth — 5 mi away in Woodworth, LA
- Latanier Church — 5 mi away
- Mark Hankins Ministries — 5.4 mi away in Woodworth, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lamourie Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Second Union Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- Riverview Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Alexandria, LA
- Mount Lebanon Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
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