Mount Olive Baptist Church of Grambling
Mount Olive Baptist Church of Grambling 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, 71270Website: http://mountolivebcgrambling.org/
Mount Olive Baptist Church of Grambling 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 Mount Olive Baptist Church of Grambling
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. Nearly half of 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: 49.1% (33.3–64.9%)
- Obesity: 46.6%
- Social Isolation: 45.4%
- Poverty Rate: 44.7% (32.0–57.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 40.6% (29.8–51.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.0% (21.5–36.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 23.8% (17.5–30.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.2%
- Depression: 27.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Mount Olive Baptist Church of Grambling
- Community Enrichment Group — 1.1 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Bissic-Whittaker Christian Center — 1.5 mi away in Grambling, LA
- New Rocky Valley Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Saint Benedict Catholic Church — 1.6 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Lewis Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.7 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Grambling Church of Christ — 1.9 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Grambling Church of God & Christ — 2 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Saint Benedict Catholic Church — 2 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Grambling, LA
- St Luke's Episcopal Chapel — 2.2 mi away in Grambling, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away in Grambling, LA
- Cook Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Christ Temple Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Barnet Springs Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away