Mary Gross Baptist Church
Mary Gross 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, 71203Website: http://www.marygossbc.us/
Mary Gross 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 Mary Gross 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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of the people here live 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.
- Child Poverty: 64.8% (45.6–83.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 55.6%
- Obesity: 53.5%
- Food Insecurity: 52.7%
- Social Isolation: 44.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.9%
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Unemployment: 10.6% (3.5–17.8%)
- Depression: 26.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
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 Mary Gross Baptist Church
- Mt Sinai Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Spring Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Spiritual Harvest Worship Center — 0.4 mi away
- College Town Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Springhill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Tried Stone Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Luke Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater New Antioch Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Spring Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tried Stone Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater New Antioch Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- College Place Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away