Ridge Avenue Baptist Church
Ridge Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1009 Ridge Avenue in West Monroe, LA 71291. It is one of 113 churches in West Monroe, and one of 25 Baptist congregations in the city.
1009 Ridge Avenue, West Monroe, LA, 71291Service times
- Sunday 9:15am · School
Phone: +1-318-396-1116 · Website: http://www.ridgeavenuebaptistchurch.org/
Ridge Avenue 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 Ridge Avenue Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 41.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
- Food Insecurity: 24.2%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (11.1–35.4%)
- Unemployment: 11.0% (2.8–19.2%)
- Depression: 26.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.6% (6.1–23.2%)
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
West Monroe city is served by 27 churches — about one congregation for every 369 residents.
Churches near Ridge Avenue Baptist Church
- Christ Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Light of the World Church — 0.4 mi away
- Highland Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Iona Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Olive Branch Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trenton Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- The Assembly — 0.8 mi away
- North 5th Street Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Gilead Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Highland Baptist Church — 1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Olive Branch Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Gilead Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Highland Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Edgewood Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- McClendon Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
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