Avenue Baptist Church
Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1009 Ridge Avenue, West Monroe, LA, 71291 in Monroe, LA 71201. It is one of 221 churches in Monroe, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
1009 Ridge Avenue, West Monroe, LA, 71291, Monroe, LA, 71201Service times
- Sunday 9:15am · School
Phone: (318) 235-7938
Avenue Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,417 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 Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.
- Child Poverty: 80.7%
- Obesity: 56.9%
- Poverty Rate: 53.1%
- Food Insecurity: 52.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 33.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 24.4%
- Unemployment: 15.8% (5.0–26.9%)
- Depression: 24.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Monroe city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 472 residents.
Churches near Avenue Baptist Church
- First Church of God In Christ — 0 mi away
- Saint Matthews Church of Christ Holiness — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Traveler Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Matthew Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Flowery Mount Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Little Flower of Jesus Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Deuteronomy Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Triumph Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Refuge Healing Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Traveler Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Piney Grove Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Liberty Hill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rose of Sharon Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away