First Baptist Church of Sun
First Baptist Church of Sun is a Baptist church in Sun, LA 70463. It is one of 5 churches in Sun.
Sun, LA, 70463First Baptist Church of Sun 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 of Sun
It takes 3.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Depression: 26.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Food Insecurity: 19.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (2.6–12.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Sun
- Sun United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Church — 0.9 mi away
- Jerusalem Church — 1.2 mi away
- Bush Church — 2.8 mi away in Bush, LA
- Saint Michael The Archangel Mission — 2.9 mi away in Bush, LA
- Palestine Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Bogalusa, LA
- Church of God — 3.3 mi away in Bush, LA
- Chapel Community Church — 3.9 mi away
- Talley Church — 3.9 mi away in Bogalusa, LA
- Hebron Church — 4.1 mi away in Bush, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Palestine Baptist Church — 3.1 mi away in Bogalusa, LA
- Hope Church — 6 mi away in Bush, LA
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 6.5 mi away in Bogalusa, LA
- Isabel Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Bogalusa, LA
- Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away in Bogalusa, LA