Greater Live Oak Baptist Church
Greater Live Oak Baptist Church is a church in Opelousas, LA 70570. It is one of 67 churches in Opelousas.
Opelousas, LA, 70570Greater Live Oak 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 — 71,417 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 Greater Live Oak 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 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 46.8%
- Food Insecurity: 45.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.4%
- Poverty Rate: 33.4% (17.7–49.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 33.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 23.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.6%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (1.3–13.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Opelousas city is served by 8 churches — about one congregation for every 1,866 residents.
Churches near Greater Live Oak Baptist Church
- Epiphany Opelousas — 0.3 mi away
- Opelousas Greater First Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hope Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Mark United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Louisiana Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Cornerstone Bible Church of Opelousas — 0.7 mi away
- Little Zion Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Our Saviors Church — 0.8 mi away
- Christ Church — 0.8 mi away
- United Pentecostal Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Little Zion Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Opelousas Bible Church — 2.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Greater Union Baptist Church — 4.2 mi away
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