Kazi-Nia Church

Kazi-Nia Church is a church at 2801 Piety St in New Orleans, LA 70126-6409. It is one of 816 churches in New Orleans.

Kazi-Nia Baptist Church was birthed out of a vision from God to Pastor Lisa to plant a church in the Desire Community, the same community she grew up in, but gravely different. A place where the residents of the Estates and the surrounding community can learn and continue to grow in their spiritual development, concentrating on the "whole person" concept, mind, body, and spirit.

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2801 Piety St, New Orleans, LA, 70126-6409

Phone: +15048308087 · Website: http://knbc2020.startsites.org/

Ministries at Kazi-Nia Church

  • Food pantry

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The community around Kazi-Nia Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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 nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 91.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 47.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 45.3% (31.8–58.8%)
  • Social Isolation: 44.4%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.6%
  • Housing Insecurity: 35.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.0%
  • Transportation Barriers: 24.4%
  • Diabetes: 23.2%
  • Obesity: 44.3%
  • Depression: 28.1%
  • Unemployment: 9.7% (2.7–17.2%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

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