Walnut Ridge Baptist Church
Walnut Ridge 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, 71268Walnut Ridge 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 Walnut Ridge Baptist Church
It takes 4.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 45.4%
- Food Insecurity: 25.8%
- Diabetes: 18.2%
- Child Poverty: 38.6% (24.2–53.0%)
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Poverty Rate: 28.2% (18.9–37.5%)
- Depression: 28.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.7%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (1.6–11.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Walnut Ridge Baptist Church
- Saint Lucy Catholic Church — 2.1 mi away in Hodge, LA
- Hodge Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away in Hodge, LA
- North Hodge Assembly of God Church — 2.2 mi away in North Hodge, LA
- Galilee Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Hodge, LA
- Hodge Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Hodge, LA
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church - East Hodge — 2.4 mi away in East Hodge, LA
- Hodge United Pentecostal Church — 2.5 mi away in Hodge, LA
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 2.5 mi away in North Hodge, LA
- North Hodge Church of God — 2.8 mi away in North Hodge, LA
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hodge Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Hodge, LA
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Jonesboro United Methodist Church — 3.9 mi away in Jonesboro, LA
- First Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Jonesboro, LA
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away