Laurel Heights Baptist Church
Laurel Heights Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Shreveport, LA 71109. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport, and one of 165 Baptist congregations in the city.
Shreveport, LA, 71109Shares a ministry location with New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church.
Laurel Heights 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 — 71,420 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 Laurel Heights 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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: 54.3%
- Obesity: 53.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.2%
- Poverty Rate: 43.2% (29.2–57.2%)
- Social Isolation: 42.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.6%
- Diabetes: 26.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.0%
- Unemployment: 12.4% (3.6–21.3%)
- Depression: 25.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Shreveport city is served by 224 churches — about one congregation for every 690 residents.
Churches near Laurel Heights Baptist Church
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Philadelphia Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Hope Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Living Water Faith Center — 0.5 mi away
- Freedom Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Midway Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- God Did It Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Triumph Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ingleside Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bridge of Hope Worship Center — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Freedom Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ingleside Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Christ Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bright Star Baptist Church of Queensboro — 0.9 mi away
- Greater Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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