Bright Star Baptist Church

Bright Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3330 Meriwether Rd in Shreveport, LA 71108-5318. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport, and one of 165 Baptist congregations in the city.

3330 Meriwether Rd, Shreveport, LA, 71108-5318

Service times

  • Sunday 10:45am

Phone: (318) 686-1826 · Website: https://brightstarshreveport.org/

Shares a ministry location with South Acres Baptist Church.

Bright Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,417 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 Bright Star 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Obesity: 46.7%
  • Social Isolation: 40.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 38.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 30.4% (15.4–45.4%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 28.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.0%
  • Diabetes: 18.6%
  • Child Poverty: 35.1% (16.2–54.0%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.5%
  • Depression: 27.0%
  • Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
  • Unemployment: 6.4% (0.9–12.5%)

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

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