Gospel Light Baptist Church
Gospel Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Shreveport, LA 71106. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport, and one of 165 Baptist congregations in the city.
Shreveport, LA, 71106Gospel Light 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 — 71,419 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 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
More Baptist churches nearby
- The New Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Saint David Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Second Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Cedar Grove — 0.7 mi away
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