Saint Joseph Baptist Church

Saint Joseph Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ponchatoula, LA 70454. It is one of 50 churches in Ponchatoula, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.

Ponchatoula, LA, 70454

Saint Joseph 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 Saint Joseph 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: 43.6%
  • Social Isolation: 38.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.0%
  • Diabetes: 15.9%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.9%
  • Depression: 26.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 20.8% (8.0–33.6%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

Ponchatoula city is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 259 residents.

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