Mount Gilead Baptist Church
Mount Gilead Baptist Church is a Baptist church in West Monroe, LA 71291. It is one of 113 churches in West Monroe, and one of 25 Baptist congregations in the city.
West Monroe, LA, 71291Mount Gilead 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 Mount Gilead Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 41.0%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Depression: 27.5%
- Food Insecurity: 20.8%
- Unemployment: 10.5% (2.8–18.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.3%
- Child Poverty: 26.3% (10.3–43.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
- Poverty Rate: 20.6% (10.2–31.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.1%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
West Monroe city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 369 residents.
Churches near Mount Gilead Baptist Church
- Whites Ferry Road Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Iona Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Highland Presbyterian Church — 0.8 mi away
- Highland Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Ridge Avenue Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Christ Church — 1 mi away
- The Light of the World Church — 1 mi away
- Fair Park Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Trenton Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Olive Branch Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Highland Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Ridge Avenue Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Fair Park Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Olive Branch Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Parkview Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Monroe, LA
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