St Peter Baptist Church
St Peter Baptist Church is a church at 5748 Poydras Bayou Dr in Port Allen, LA 70767. It is one of 42 churches in Port Allen.
5748 Poydras Bayou Dr, Port Allen, LA, 70767Phone: (225) 627-9357 · Website: http://stpeterbaptistchurch.com
Shares a ministry location with Saint Peters Church.
St Peter 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 Peter Baptist Church
It takes 3.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Child Poverty: 36.6% (20.2–53.2%)
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Depression: 27.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
- Poverty Rate: 25.8% (14.1–37.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.5%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Unemployment: 10.8% (3.7–18.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Peter Baptist Church
- Saint Peters Church — 0 mi away
- Erwinville Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- United Pentecostal Church — 1.6 mi away
- First Church — 1.6 mi away
- True Light Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Lakeland, LA
- Sharon Church — 3.2 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 3.4 mi away in Lakeland, LA
- Greater Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Calvary Church — 3.6 mi away
- Our Lady of the Lake — 3.6 mi away in Erwinville, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Erwinville Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- True Light Baptist Church — 3 mi away in Lakeland, LA
- Greater Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Saint Alma Church — 3.9 mi away in Rougon, LA
- Christ Baptist Church — 7 mi away
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