Mount Paran Baptist Church
Mount Paran Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1855 Russell Road in Shreveport, LA 71107. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport, and one of 129 Baptist congregations in the city.
Mount Paran Missionary Baptist Church was organized in 1930 under the leadership of Rev. E. D. Robinson with fourteen members.
Serving since 1930
1855 Russell Road, Shreveport, LA, 71107Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: (318) 425-1224 · Website: https://mtparanmbc.com/
Mount Paran 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 Mount Paran Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 77.4%
- Food Insecurity: 57.3%
- Obesity: 53.6%
- Poverty Rate: 49.7% (35.6–63.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 44.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 40.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 40.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 34.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 29.1%
- Diabetes: 24.5%
- Unemployment: 20.7% (13.5–27.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.8% (5.7–30.0%)
- Depression: 26.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Shreveport city is served by 224 churches — about one congregation for every 690 residents.
Churches near Mount Paran Baptist Church
- Russell Road Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Johnsons Holy Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Johnson Holy Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Luke Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ward Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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