Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church
Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church is a church at 1635 Duson Ave in Opelousas, LA 70570-2521. It is one of 67 churches in Opelousas.
1635 Duson Ave, Opelousas, LA, 70570-2521Phone: (337) 948-1972 · Website: http://msbcnc.com/
Morning Star Missionary 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 Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 56.1% (37.6–74.5%)
- Obesity: 46.2%
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Food Insecurity: 41.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Poverty Rate: 34.1% (20.3–47.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.0%
- Diabetes: 21.5%
- Unemployment: 13.2% (2.8–23.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.8%
- Depression: 24.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church
- Community Chapel Church of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Living Water Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Cornerstone Opelousas — 0.5 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Spirit of Elijah Life Institute Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. John Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- River of Life Ministries — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Opelousas Bible Church — 1.3 mi away
- Greater Live Oak Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Little Zion Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
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