Eastside Baptist Church

Eastside Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Monroe, LA 71203. It is one of 221 churches in Monroe, and one of 56 Baptist congregations in the city.

Monroe, LA, 71203

Eastside 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 Eastside 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

  • Obesity: 50.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 45.4% (31.2–59.5%)
  • Food Insecurity: 41.4%
  • Social Isolation: 40.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 28.7%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.7%
  • Diabetes: 20.9%
  • Unemployment: 13.6% (5.5–21.6%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
  • Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
  • Depression: 26.7%

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

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