Westside Baptist Church

Westside Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 6834 Highway 1 in Natchitoches, LA 71457. It is one of 98 churches in Natchitoches, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.

6834 Highway 1, Natchitoches, LA, 71457

Westside 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 — 71,417 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 Westside Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Poverty Rate: 51.5%
  • Social Isolation: 43.6%
  • Food Insecurity: 41.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 29.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.8%
  • Transportation Barriers: 23.4%
  • Obesity: 43.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.5%
  • Depression: 31.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
  • Unemployment: 10.6% (3.5–17.8%)
  • Child Poverty: 22.1% (9.6–34.6%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Natchitoches city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 442 residents.

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