First Saint Paul Baptist Church
First Saint Paul Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Leesville, LA 71446. It is one of 85 churches in Leesville, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Leesville, LA, 71446First Saint Paul 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 First Saint Paul Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 55.9%
- Obesity: 45.1%
- Poverty Rate: 34.9%
- Food Insecurity: 33.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
- Diabetes: 18.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Depression: 27.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (4.4–11.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Leesville city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 199 residents.
Churches near First Saint Paul Baptist Church
- Greater Bethel AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- Johnson Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Leesville Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Branded for Christ Cowboy Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Jesus Christ House of Prayer — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist CHurch — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Leesville First Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ellen Burr Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist CHurch — 0.4 mi away
- Ellen Burr Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Leesville — 0.9 mi away
- Emanuel Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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