Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 1822 Highway 605, Newellton, LA, 71357-6343.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 9:45am (School). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Newellton, LA is a Baptist church.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1822 Highway 605 in Newellton, LA 71357-6343.

To be a church whose purpose is to be Christ-like in our daily living by emphasizing total commitment of life, personality, and possessions to the Lordship of Christ.

The church which is built upon Christ and made up of His chosen people, born again through the saving power of His Blood and endowed with the Holy Spirit is to: gather together in His Name, teach the Bible, lead men to repentance; baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; minister to the needs of people; guide in the maturing of Christians; guard the principles which His Word teaches; practice loving the brethren; and worship and praise God.

1822 Highway 605, Newellton, LA, 71357-6343

Service times

Sunday 9:45am · School

Phone: +13184675980 · Website: https://www.fbcnewellton.com/

First 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 First Baptist Church

It takes 9.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

Obesity: 46.8%
Child Poverty: 42.1% (24.8–59.5%)
Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
Food Insecurity: 29.5%
Diabetes: 21.4%
Social Isolation: 36.0%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
Poverty Rate: 25.5% (15.2–35.8%)
Housing Insecurity: 20.4%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
Unemployment: 8.2% (2.3–14.3%)
Depression: 24.3%
Transportation Barriers: 14.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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