First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 505 2nd St in Melville, LA 71353. It is one of 9 churches in Melville.
505 2nd St, Melville, LA, 71353Phone: +13376234900 · Website: http://www.abc-usa.org
First 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 Baptist Church
It takes 6.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
- Food Insecurity: 27.1%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Depression: 27.2%
- Unemployment: 8.5% (2.1–15.1%)
- Obesity: 40.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.1%
- Poverty Rate: 16.1% (8.6–23.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church of Melville — 0.3 mi away
- Evening Star Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Church — 4.2 mi away
- New Zion Church — 4.8 mi away in Batchelor, LA
- Mount Olive Church — 5.2 mi away in Morganza, LA
- Zion Traveler Church — 5.6 mi away
- Greater Saint Marks Church — 5.9 mi away in Batchelor, LA
- Atchafalaya Church — 7.1 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church of Bayou Rouge — 7.3 mi away in Palmetto, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Era Baptist Church — 9.6 mi away in Morganza, LA
- Fordoche Baptist Church — 10.6 mi away in Fordoche, LA
- Courtableau Baptist Church — 13.4 mi away in Port Barre, LA
- New Jerusalem Church — 16.5 mi away in St Francisville, LA
- St Mary Missionary Baptist Church — 16.7 mi away in Lettsworth, LA
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