First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1306 Louisa St in Rayville, LA 71269-3248. It is one of 75 churches in Rayville, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
1306 Louisa St, Rayville, LA, 71269-3248Phone: +13187283231 · Website: https://www.fbcrayville.org/
First 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.
Ministries at First Baptist Church
- GriefShare
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The community around First Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 50.7%
- Child Poverty: 47.0% (32.0–62.0%)
- Food Insecurity: 46.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.4%
- Poverty Rate: 38.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 24.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Unemployment: 10.3% (5.0–15.6%)
- Depression: 26.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rayville Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hamlett Temple CME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rankin Chapel AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Beginnings Faith Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- Westside Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Westside Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Woodlawn Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Rayville Baptist Christian — 1 mi away
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