Start Baptist Church

Start Baptist Church is a church in Rayville, LA 71269. It is one of 75 churches in Rayville.

Rayville, LA, 71269

Start 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 Start Baptist Church

It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than 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.

  • Food Insecurity: 28.0%
  • Obesity: 42.5%
  • Social Isolation: 38.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.6%
  • Diabetes: 16.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.0%
  • Child Poverty: 27.2% (14.9–40.3%)
  • Depression: 26.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 21.0% (13.9–28.6%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 14.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

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