Greater Star Baptist Church
Greater Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Shreveport, LA 71103. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport, and one of 165 Baptist congregations in the city.
Shreveport, LA, 71103Greater 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 — 71,419 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 Greater Star Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 77.4%
- Obesity: 51.5%
- Food Insecurity: 47.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Poverty Rate: 40.9% (27.2–54.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.3%
- Diabetes: 28.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.6%
- Unemployment: 22.2% (10.2–34.3%)
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.
Shreveport city is served by 224 churches — about one congregation for every 690 residents.
Churches near Greater Star Baptist Church
- Prince of Peace Christian Center — 0 mi away
- The Church in the Name of Jesus Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Tabernacle Revival Center — 0.2 mi away
- Central Free Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Temple of Vision Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Salem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Temple of Vision Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Augustine Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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