Gambrell Baptist Church
Gambrell Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Starks, LA 70661. It is one of 6 churches in Starks.
Starks, LA, 70661Gambrell 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 Gambrell Baptist Church
It takes 7.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
- Obesity: 44.1%
- Social Isolation: 35.3%
- Child Poverty: 31.6% (19.3–44.9%)
- Depression: 28.4%
- Poverty Rate: 25.9% (16.9–34.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 24.4%
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (6.9–18.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gambrell Baptist Church
- Nichols Creek Church — 5.7 mi away in Buna, TX
- Calvary Apostolic Church — 7.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 7.4 mi away
- Brushy Creek Missionary Baptist Church — 7.5 mi away in Merryville, LA
- Saint Mary Church — 7.6 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church — 7.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church Deweyville — 9.2 mi away in Deweyville, TX
- United Pentecostal Church — 9.3 mi away in Orange, TX
- Calvary Baptist Church — 9.4 mi away in Orange, TX
- First Baptist Church — 9.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Brushy Creek Missionary Baptist Church — 7.5 mi away in Merryville, LA
- Fields Baptist Church — 10.2 mi away in Merryville, LA
- Mystic Baptist Church — 14 mi away in Merryville, LA
- First Baptist Church — 15.4 mi away in DeQuincy, LA
- Green Oak Baptist Church — 15.6 mi away in Merryville, LA