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, 71202New 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
It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 57.9% (43.5–72.7%)
- Obesity: 51.7%
- Food Insecurity: 45.9%
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.0%
- Poverty Rate: 35.9% (25.4–46.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 33.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.6%
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (3.3–16.4%)
- Depression: 25.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Light Baptist Church
- Grace Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Church of God — 3.2 mi away
- St James Number Two Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Pleasant Green Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away in Richwood, LA
- Greater Free Gift Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Unity Church of God In Christ — 4.5 mi away
- Gains Chapel — 4.5 mi away
- Old Saint James Church — 4.6 mi away
- Gibson Chapel — 4.9 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Free Gift Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Pine Grove Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Memorial Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Peter Rock Baptist Church — 6.1 mi away