Bethel Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Ruston, LA 71270. It is one of 83 churches in Ruston, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
Ruston, LA, 71270Service times
- Thursday 8am
Phone: (318) 245-8465
Bethel 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 Bethel Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 77.5%
- Obesity: 52.1%
- Food Insecurity: 46.6%
- Poverty Rate: 46.2% (34.5–57.9%)
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.9%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.7%
- Depression: 28.5%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (0.1–17.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Ruston city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 658 residents.
Churches near Bethel Baptist Church
- South Parkway Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Life Church LA — 0.3 mi away
- Lifepoint Church — 0.4 mi away
- Campus community worship center — 0.4 mi away
- DaySpring Baptist Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- Praise Temple Ruston — 0.9 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Ruston Church of God in Christ — 1.1 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- St Mary Baptist Church - Ruston, La — 1.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- DaySpring Baptist Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Zion Traveler Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away