Pleasant Grove Baptist Church

Pleasant Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1963 Perrin Street in Shreveport, LA 71101. It is one of 535 churches in Shreveport, and one of 165 Baptist congregations in the city.

1963 Perrin Street, Shreveport, LA, 71101

Pleasant Grove 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 — 71,418 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 Pleasant Grove Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 77.4%
  • Obesity: 52.3%
  • Food Insecurity: 50.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 43.3% (29.1–57.5%)
  • Social Isolation: 41.5%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.9%
  • Housing Insecurity: 34.1%
  • Diabetes: 28.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.8%
  • Transportation Barriers: 24.3%
  • Unemployment: 15.0% (5.4–26.3%)
  • Depression: 24.1%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4% (10.0–17.0%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.

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

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