Oak Forest Baptist Church

Oak Forest 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, 71446

Website: http://oakforestbc.com/

Oak Forest 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 Oak Forest 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: 59.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 35.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 33.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
  • Diabetes: 18.6%
  • Obesity: 44.9%
  • Social Isolation: 37.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
  • Depression: 27.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.0%
  • Transportation Barriers: 16.3%
  • Unemployment: 7.0% (3.8–10.2%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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