Saint Thomas Baptist Church
Saint Thomas Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2926 Jackson Ave. in New Orleans, LA 70125. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 286 Baptist congregations in the city.
2926 Jackson Ave., New Orleans, LA, 70125Service times
Tuesday @ 6:30 PM (as listed)
Phone: (504) 595-3011 · Website: https://www.stthomasmbc.org/
Saint Thomas 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 — 71,418 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 Saint Thomas Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 51.1%
- Poverty Rate: 47.4% (30.3–64.4%)
- Social Isolation: 45.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.7%
- Diabetes: 23.0%
- Unemployment: 17.2% (7.4–27.0%)
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Depression: 28.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.0% (7.0–27.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near Saint Thomas Baptist Church
- Greater Saint Matthew Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Israel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second Evangelist Missionary Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Gospel Faith United Holy Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seventh Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Everest Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Evangelist Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater Saint Matthew Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Israel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
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