First Asia Baptist Church
First Asia Baptist Church is a church at 2408 Walkers Ln in Meraux, LA 70075-2447. It is one of 2 churches in Meraux.
2408 Walkers Ln, Meraux, LA, 70075-2447Phone: +15043246501 · Website: http://www.nonprofitfacts.com/LA/First-Asia-Baptist-Church.html
First Asia 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 Asia Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 40.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Depression: 28.6%
- Food Insecurity: 22.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
- Child Poverty: 25.4% (7.7–43.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Poverty Rate: 20.0% (10.0–30.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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