How It All Began

How It All Began is a Seventh-Day Adventist church at 7025 Greenwood Rd in Shreveport, LA 71119-8318. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport, and one of 3 Seventh-Day Adventist congregations in the city.

It is a story of heeding the commission to “go and make disciples” in hopeful anticipation of our Savior’s soon return.

Welcome to the Arkansas-Louisiana Seventh-day Adventist History online. Our story is rooted in the early Adventists who had the vision and commitment to spread the Seventh-day Adventist message throughout Arkansas and Louisiana.

7025 Greenwood Rd, Shreveport, LA, 71119-8318

Phone: (318) 517-7898 · Website: https://arklasdahistory.org/

How It All Began is part of the Adventist and Sabbatarian family of churches in The American Church Story. 39 congregations of the Adventist and Sabbatarian family gather across Louisiana — 4,219 across the United States on The Church Map.

Adventists have kept two things in front of a forgetful church: that God commanded rest, and that Christ is actually returning. They also built one of the largest Protestant health and education systems on earth — hospitals, clinics, and schools serving many times their own membership.

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The community around How It All Began

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. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third 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.

  • Food Insecurity: 26.5%
  • Obesity: 42.9%
  • Social Isolation: 38.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.7%
  • Diabetes: 16.5%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
  • Unemployment: 8.7% (0.0–18.1%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.5%
  • Depression: 24.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 16.5% (7.5–25.5%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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