Myrtle Grove Baptist Church
Myrtle Grove Baptist Church is a church at 105 A St in Waterproof, LA 71375. It is one of 16 churches in Waterproof.
105 A St, Waterproof, LA, 71375Phone: +13187493354 · Website: http://www.myrtlegrovebaptistchurch.com
Myrtle Grove 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 Myrtle Grove Baptist Church
It takes 6.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Child Poverty: 61.2%
- Obesity: 50.3%
- Food Insecurity: 40.2%
- Poverty Rate: 38.2% (27.5–49.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.8%
- Diabetes: 25.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.7%
- Unemployment: 10.0% (2.7–18.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Myrtle Grove Baptist Church
- Waterproof United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Cypress Grove Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Mark Church — 2.3 mi away
- Richland Church — 4.4 mi away
- Saint Mark Church — 4.7 mi away
- Gilfield Church — 5.1 mi away in Ferriday, LA
- Saint John Church — 5.2 mi away in Ferriday, LA
- First United MBC — 5.3 mi away
- Spring Hill Church — 5.5 mi away in St Joseph, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Choctaw Baptist Church — 6.1 mi away
- Maryland Baptist Church — 7.8 mi away in St Joseph, LA
- Lakeshore Baptist Church — 7.9 mi away in Ferriday, LA
- Mercy Seat Baptist Church — 10.4 mi away in Natchez, MS
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