Guiding Light Baptist Church
Guiding Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church in New Orleans, LA 70115. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 286 Baptist congregations in the city.
New Orleans, LA, 70115Guiding Light 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 — 71,419 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 Guiding Light Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 41.9%
- Food Insecurity: 34.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Depression: 29.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.6% (9.3–30.0%)
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (2.0–17.5%)
- Obesity: 37.8%
- Poverty Rate: 18.3% (6.7–29.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near Guiding Light Baptist Church
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- Restoration Temple Evangelist Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Third Rose of Sharon Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Wings of Faith House of Prayer — 0.1 mi away
- Second Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Central City Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
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- Second Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Spirit of Liberty Missionary Baptist Church - New Orleans — 0.2 mi away
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