East Leesville Baptist Church
East Leesville Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 266 Alexandria Highway in Leesville, LA 71446. It is one of 85 churches in Leesville, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
To Engage People With The Gospel Of Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:18-20; John 20:21) To Equip Followers of Christ For Works Of Ministry (Ephesians 4:11-12) To Empower Followers of Jesus To Go & To Be The Church In Leesville, In Louisiana, In The United States, and In The World… (Acts 1:8)
East continues to be a church desiring to follow Jesus Christ as a family of faith, fulfilling the Great Commission through worship, evangelism, discipleship, ministry and fellowship.
266 Alexandria Highway, Leesville, LA, 71446Service times
- Sunday 6:15pm
Phone: (337) 238-1033 · Website: http://www.elbchurch.org/
East Leesville 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 East Leesville Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 54.9%
- Poverty Rate: 33.6%
- Food Insecurity: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.7%
- Depression: 27.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.3%
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (4.2–11.3%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near East Leesville Baptist Church
- East Leesville Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hope Springs UPC — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Family Worship Center — 1.1 mi away
- Branded for Christ Cowboy Church — 1.1 mi away
- Leesville Church of the Nazarene — 1.2 mi away
- Johnson Temple Church of God in Christ — 1.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Saint Paul Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Leesville First Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Saint Paul Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist CHurch — 1.6 mi away
- Oak Forest Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Ellen Burr Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
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