Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Monroe, LA 71202. It is one of 221 churches in Monroe, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Monroe, LA, 71202Mount Pleasant 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 — 71,420 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 Pleasant Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 84.3%
- Obesity: 57.3%
- Poverty Rate: 54.0%
- Food Insecurity: 52.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 33.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 24.3%
- Unemployment: 17.4% (5.2–29.6%)
- Depression: 24.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Monroe city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 472 residents.
Churches near Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- Piney Grove Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Little Flower of Jesus Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Mary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Deuteronomy Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Beth Eden Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Triumph Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Hope & Love Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of God In Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Matthews Church of Christ Holiness — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Piney Grove Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- St Mary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Avenue Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Berean Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away