Pleasant Hill Baptist Church

Pleasant Hill 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, 71270

Pleasant Hill 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 Pleasant Hill Baptist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 71.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 53.1%
  • Social Isolation: 41.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 31.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.1%
  • Obesity: 42.7%
  • Depression: 31.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 21.9%
  • Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.2%
  • Unemployment: 6.8% (0.2–15.5%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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