Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 2470 Tower Drive, Monroe, LA, 71201.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 10:30am (morning). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Monroe, LA is a Baptist church. It is one of 67 Baptist congregations in Monroe.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2470 Tower Drive in Monroe, LA 71201. It is one of 221 churches in Monroe, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.

Bringing Gospel Restoration into our everyday lives as we live devoted to Jesus.

Serving since 1854

2470 Tower Drive, Monroe, LA, 71201

Service times

Sunday 10:30am · morning

Phone: (318) 325-3126 · Website: http://www.firstmonroe.com/

First 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 First 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 children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 52.7%
Child Poverty: 49.7% (32.1–67.3%)
Food Insecurity: 44.2%
Social Isolation: 41.2%
Poverty Rate: 39.3% (27.7–51.0%)
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.1%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
Housing Insecurity: 32.0%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.8%
Diabetes: 22.2%
Transportation Barriers: 22.0%
Unemployment: 10.6% (2.6–19.4%)
Depression: 24.5%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (4.3–18.6%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 9 census tracts near this church.

Monroe city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 472 residents.

Churches near First Baptist Church

Saint Matthew Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
Redemption Power Church — 0.1 mi away
Portico Church — 0.1 mi away
Crosspoint Ministries — 0.2 mi away
Grace Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
Stone Avenue Methodist Protestant Church — 0.4 mi away
River Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away in West Monroe, LA
World Love Ministries — 0.5 mi away
Monroe Christian Center — 0.6 mi away

More Baptist churches nearby

Crosspoint Ministries — 0.2 mi away
Grace Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
World Love Ministries — 0.5 mi away
New Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away

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