Mount Olivet Baptist Church
Mount Olivet Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Monroe, LA 71203. It is one of 221 churches in Monroe, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Monroe, LA, 71203Mount Olivet 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 — 71,419 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 Mount Olivet 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. About 2 in 3 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: 67.0% (48.8–85.3%)
- Obesity: 58.1%
- Poverty Rate: 58.1%
- Food Insecurity: 57.3%
- Social Isolation: 43.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 41.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 36.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 29.3%
- Diabetes: 27.2%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (2.7–17.4%)
- Depression: 24.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2% (10.6–18.4%)
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 Mount Olivet Baptist Church
- New Galilee Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Bright Oak Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- King Ollie Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Powers House Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Riverside Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Springhill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Luke Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rose of Sharon Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Timothy Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Riverside Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Rose of Sharon Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Timothy Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away