Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Quitman, LA 71268. It is one of 16 churches in Quitman, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Quitman, LA, 71268Union 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 Union Baptist Church
It takes 6.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, 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.
- Child Poverty: 40.2% (25.6–54.9%)
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
- Depression: 27.6%
- Food Insecurity: 24.0%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
- Poverty Rate: 22.0% (14.6–29.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
- Unemployment: 6.1% (2.6–9.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Mount Temple Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sandhill Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Sardis Church — 4.5 mi away in Simsboro, LA
- Mt Calm Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Simsboro, LA
- Driskill Church — 5.2 mi away in Simsboro, LA
- Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
- Quitman First Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away
- Quitman United Methodist Church — 5.8 mi away
- Ansley Union Church — 6.9 mi away in Ruston, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
- Quitman First Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away
- Springhill Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away in Ruston, LA
- Prosperity Baptist Church — 7.2 mi away in Ruston, LA