New Light Baptist Church
New Light 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 Greater House of Prayer Church.
New Light 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 New Light Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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 about 2 in 3 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: 84.5%
- Food Insecurity: 64.4%
- Poverty Rate: 62.5%
- Obesity: 60.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 49.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 45.9%
- Social Isolation: 44.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 41.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 40.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 34.2%
- Diabetes: 29.8%
- Unemployment: 16.2% (5.7–26.8%)
- Depression: 25.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
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 New Light Baptist Church
- Greater House of Prayer Church — 0 mi away
- Solomon Temple Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Assembly of God — 0.1 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Antioch Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jesus Holy Temple — 0.6 mi away
- Marx Street Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- St John AME Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Solomon Temple Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- China Grove Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away