Linwood Baptist Church

Linwood Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1622 Midway Street in Shreveport, LA 71108. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport, and one of 129 Baptist congregations in the city.

1622 Midway Street, Shreveport, LA, 71108

Linwood Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,388 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,872 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 Linwood 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 adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

  • Obesity: 52.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 51.9%
  • Social Isolation: 42.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.8%
  • Housing Insecurity: 36.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 34.1% (20.2–48.0%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.1%
  • Diabetes: 25.5%
  • Transportation Barriers: 25.0%
  • Unemployment: 13.3% (3.6–22.9%)
  • Depression: 25.9%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Shreveport city is served by 224 churches — about one congregation for every 690 residents.

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