Oakland Baptist Church
Oakland Baptist Church is a church at 1600 Easy St in Shreveport, LA 71101-5221. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport.
1600 Easy St, Shreveport, LA, 71101-5221Phone: (318) 222-7297 · Website: http://www.oakland-baptist.com
Oakland 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 — 71,417 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 Oakland Baptist Church
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 half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Food Insecurity: 36.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Unemployment: 14.9% (1.7–28.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.5%
- Child Poverty: 31.3% (15.0–47.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 29.1% (18.3–39.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.5%
- Depression: 25.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (6.4–19.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Oakland Baptist Church
- St Mary AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Stoner Hill Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt Corinth Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Salvation Army Church — 0.4 mi away
- Stoner Hill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- One Blessed Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Peter Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Johnson Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Stoner Hill Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Peter Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Peters Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
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