True Light Baptist Church
True Light Baptist Church is a church at 310 Highway 110 W in Merryville, LA 70653-3014. It is one of 17 churches in Merryville.
310 Highway 110 W, Merryville, LA, 70653-3014Phone: +13378258963 · Website: http://merryville-la.louisiana-bd.com/true-light-baptist-church-37.html
True Light 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 True Light Baptist Church
It takes 7.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Depression: 28.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 15.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Child Poverty: 22.7% (9.5–35.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 19.5%
- Poverty Rate: 16.8% (9.8–23.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.4% (6.6–18.2%)
- Unemployment: 7.7% (2.2–13.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near True Light Baptist Church
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The River Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church Of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Leesville, LA
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Trout Creek Church — 2.3 mi away
- Bethlehem Church — 4.2 mi away
- Lone Pine Church — 5.3 mi away
- Calvary Church — 5.9 mi away
- West Bethlehem Church — 6.3 mi away in Newton, TX
More Baptist churches nearby
- The River Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Leesville, LA
- Bon Wier Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Bon Wier, TX
- Cooper Church — 7.6 mi away
- Beckwith Baptist Church — 9.6 mi away in Deridder, LA
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