Where is First Baptist Church located?

First Baptist Church is at 601 N Elms St, Welsh, LA, 70591.

What time are services at First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church meets Sunday at 9am (In-Person & Online). Times are the church's local time — confirm with the church before visiting.

What denomination is First Baptist Church?

First Baptist Church in Welsh, LA is a Baptist church. It is one of 3 Baptist congregations in Welsh.

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 601 N Elms St in Welsh, LA 70591. It is one of 8 churches in Welsh, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.

Serving since 1926

601 N Elms St, Welsh, LA, 70591

Service times

Sunday 9am · In-Person & Online

Phone: (337) 734-3552 · Website: http://www.firstb.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 3.3 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 44.0%
Social Isolation: 36.4%
Depression: 29.0%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
Poverty Rate: 24.0% (11.7–36.4%)
Food Insecurity: 23.0%
Diabetes: 16.1%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near First Baptist Church

First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
Our Lady of Seven Dolors Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
Jones United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
New Hope Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
Roanoke Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away in Roanoke, LA
Roanoke Church of the Brethren — 4.5 mi away in Roanoke, LA
Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 5.7 mi away in Lacassine, LA

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