Quitman First Baptist Church
Quitman First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Quitman, LA 71268. It is one of 16 churches in Quitman, and one of 10 Baptist congregations in the city.
Quitman, LA, 71268Shares a ministry location with Quitman United Methodist Church.
Quitman First 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 Quitman First Baptist Church
It takes 4.4 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: 43.6%
- Child Poverty: 38.6% (24.2–53.0%)
- Social Isolation: 34.5%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Poverty Rate: 23.2% (16.0–30.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.8%
- Diabetes: 16.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (2.7–10.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Quitman First Baptist Church
- Quitman United Methodist Church — 0 mi away
- Sweetwater Church — 2.4 mi away
- Antioch Presbyterian Church — 3 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Highway Chapel Church of God — 3.5 mi away
- Ansley Union Church — 3.7 mi away in Ruston, LA
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- North Hodge Church of God — 4.2 mi away in North Hodge, LA
- Walnut Ridge Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sweetwater Church — 2.4 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Walnut Ridge Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away