Freewill Baptist Church
Freewill Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Monroe, LA 71202. It is one of 221 churches in Monroe, and one of 56 Baptist congregations in the city.
Monroe, LA, 71202Shares a ministry location with House of Prayer.
Freewill 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 Freewill Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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: 87.1%
- Food Insecurity: 57.7%
- Obesity: 57.6%
- Poverty Rate: 53.2% (38.8–67.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 43.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 41.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 40.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 36.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 29.6%
- Diabetes: 26.9%
- Unemployment: 11.6% (4.4–18.9%)
- Depression: 24.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Monroe city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 472 residents.
Churches near Freewill Baptist Church
- House of Prayer — 0 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.2 mi away
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mt Nebo Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jesus Holy Temple — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Macedonia Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Life Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Lighthouse — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Solomon Temple Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- New Light Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away