Mount Olive Baptist Church
Mount Olive Baptist Church is a Baptist church in New Iberia, LA 70560. It is one of 67 churches in New Iberia, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
New Iberia, LA, 70560Mount Olive 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 Mount Olive Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 27.5%
- Obesity: 40.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Depression: 29.2%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.1% (7.9–22.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.9% (12.5–27.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (1.1–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Olive Baptist Church
- Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church — 1.3 mi away
- Star Temple Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- St. Mark Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Broussard, LA
- Saint Anthony Mission Chapel — 3.7 mi away in Cade, LA
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away
- New Iberia Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 5.3 mi away
- Saint Anne Catholic Church — 5.4 mi away in Youngsville, LA
- Youngsville Community Church — 5.5 mi away in Youngsville, LA
- The Pentecostals of Youngsville — 5.7 mi away in Youngsville, LA
- First Assembly of God Church — 5.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Olive Baptist Church Number 2 — 6.4 mi away
- Solid Rock Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away in Delcambre, LA
- Trinity Baptist Church — 7.1 mi away
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