Gospel Light Baptist Church
Gospel Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Shreveport, LA 71106. It is one of 505 churches in Shreveport, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.
Shreveport, LA, 71106Gospel Light Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Gospel Light 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 52.2%
- Food Insecurity: 37.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Obesity: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
- Poverty Rate: 30.0% (20.5–39.4%)
- Depression: 27.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Unemployment: 11.5% (3.3–20.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Shreveport city is served by 224 churches — about one congregation for every 690 residents.
Churches near Gospel Light Baptist Church
- John 3:16 Church — 0.1 mi away
- The New Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Showers Of Blessing Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Saint David Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Clearview Church — 0.5 mi away
- Exousia Miracle Temple International — 0.6 mi away
- Second Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Cedar Grove — 0.7 mi away
- Emmanuel Missionary Baptist — 0.8 mi away