St. John Baptist Church

St. John Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 529 Augustus St in Opelousas, LA 70570-3281. It is one of 67 churches in Opelousas, and one of 4 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.

Saint John Baptist Church is located at 529 Augustus St in Opelousas, LA - Saint Landry County and is a business listed in the categories Baptist Churches and Church & Religious Associations & Organizations.

529 Augustus St, Opelousas, LA, 70570-3281

Phone: (337) 942-4711 · Website: https://st-john-baptist-church-la-23.hub.biz

St. John 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 St. John Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, 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 more than a third 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: 46.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 41.1%
  • Social Isolation: 41.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 33.1% (18.5–47.8%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.2%
  • Diabetes: 22.1%
  • Unemployment: 15.8% (3.8–27.9%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 20.9%
  • Child Poverty: 24.8% (13.3–37.3%)
  • Depression: 24.0%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (4.8–17.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

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