Peter Rock Baptist Church
Peter Rock 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, 71202Peter Rock 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 Peter Rock Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 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 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: 90.7%
- Food Insecurity: 64.3%
- Poverty Rate: 64.1%
- Obesity: 60.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 48.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 46.1%
- Social Isolation: 44.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 41.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 41.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 33.9%
- Diabetes: 28.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.6%
- Unemployment: 11.6% (3.2–20.0%)
- Depression: 25.6%
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 Peter Rock Baptist Church
- New Life Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Jesus Holy Temple — 0.7 mi away
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.7 mi away
- Mt Nebo Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- House of Prayer — 0.9 mi away
- Freewill Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Christian Fellowship Assembly of God — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Life Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Freewill Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Light Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away