Eastside Baptist Church
Eastside Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 198 Saxon St in Ponchatoula, LA 70454-9006. It is one of 50 churches in Ponchatoula, and one of 13 Baptist congregations in the city.
to be a beacon of light and hope for God's children.
Serving since 1999
198 Saxon St, Ponchatoula, LA, 70454-9006Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8am
Phone: (985) 386-3218 · Website: http://www.eastsidebaptistchurch.com
Eastside 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.
Ministries at Eastside Baptist Church
- Children's Ministry
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The community around Eastside 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 a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Food Insecurity: 22.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
- Poverty Rate: 17.2% (8.4–26.0%)
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Eastside Baptist Church
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Bethel Independent Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Ponchatoula — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Full Faith Christian Fellowship Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Covenant Apostolic Faith Church — 0.7 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- St Matthew AME Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Ponchatoula — 0.5 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
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