First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a church at 303 Chisum St in Sicily Island, LA 71368-4807. It is one of 13 churches in Sicily Island.
303 Chisum St, Sicily Island, LA, 71368-4807Phone: +13183895733 · Website: https://www.abc-usa.org
First 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 First Baptist Church
It takes 6.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Food Insecurity: 26.3%
- Obesity: 40.4%
- Child Poverty: 39.9% (25.2–54.5%)
- Social Isolation: 36.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (17.5–33.4%)
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (2.6–15.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.7%
- Depression: 26.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- New Life In Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Pilgrim Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Pine Hill Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- Pine Hill Church — 3.1 mi away
- Pentecostal Church — 3.7 mi away
- New Hope Church — 4.1 mi away
- Life Changing Ministries — 4.3 mi away
- Sunnyside Church — 4.5 mi away in Clayton, LA
- Hope Well Church — 4.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Pine Hill Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 9.1 mi away in Wisner, LA
- Kidron Baptist Church — 9.2 mi away in Harrisonburg, LA
- Locust Hill Baptist Church — 10.8 mi away
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