True Light Baptist Church
True Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1240 GENERAL OGDEN STREET in New Orleans, LA 70118. It is one of 824 churches in New Orleans, and one of 286 Baptist congregations in the city.
1240 GENERAL OGDEN STREET, New Orleans, LA, 70118Shares a ministry location with Seeds of Change Evangelistic Ministries.
True 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 — 71,418 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 True Light Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Poverty Rate: 26.6% (14.7–38.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.8%
- Obesity: 36.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.1%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Unemployment: 7.6% (3.1–12.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
New Orleans city is served by 579 churches — about one congregation for every 657 residents.
Churches near True Light Baptist Church
- Seeds of Change Evangelistic Ministries — 0 mi away
- Prayer Tower Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Haven Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Evening Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Concordia Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Epiphany Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Marys Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Rising Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Saint John Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Evening Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Rising Star Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Saint John Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Church Number 3 — 0.6 mi away
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