Zion Traveler Baptist Church
Zion Traveler 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
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (318) 255-0552 · Website: https://www.ziontravelerbaptistruston.com/
Zion Traveler 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 Zion Traveler Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 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: 82.5%
- Obesity: 54.5%
- Food Insecurity: 49.7%
- Poverty Rate: 48.1% (33.0–63.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 23.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Depression: 28.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.6% (6.1–23.1%)
- Unemployment: 6.0% (1.0–11.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Ruston city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 658 residents.
Churches near Zion Traveler Baptist Church
- Word of Faith Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- China Grove Church — 0.8 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1.1 mi away
- Praise Temple Ruston — 1.1 mi away
- Presbyterian Church of Ruston — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church Ruston — 1.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- First Baptist Church Ruston — 1.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away