First Baptist Church Ruston
First Baptist Church Ruston is a Baptist church at 200 South Trenton St. in Ruston, LA 71270. It is one of 83 churches in Ruston, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
200 South Trenton St., Ruston, LA, 71270Service times
- Friday 9am
Phone: (318) 255-4611
First Baptist Church Ruston 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 First Baptist Church Ruston
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 2,200 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: 78.9%
- Obesity: 51.4%
- Poverty Rate: 48.9% (34.4–63.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 45.2%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.9%
- Diabetes: 20.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.4%
- Depression: 29.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.2% (5.5–20.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Ruston city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 658 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church Ruston
- Ascend Church of Ruston, LA — 0.2 mi away
- Awakening Collegiate Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Presbyterian Church of Ruston — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- China Grove Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Bridge Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mays Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Louisiana Tech BCM — 0.5 mi away
- Word of Faith Ministries — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Louisiana Tech BCM — 0.5 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away