First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in White Castle, LA 70788. It is one of 16 churches in White Castle, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
White Castle, LA, 70788First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,420 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 3.8 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third 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: 45.5%
- Food Insecurity: 30.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.2%
- Poverty Rate: 26.0% (13.5–38.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (4.8–25.7%)
- Unemployment: 8.4% (2.4–14.5%)
- Depression: 25.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Saint Paul Church — 0.9 mi away
- City of Refuge Church — 1.1 mi away
- Greater Progressive Baptist — 1.5 mi away
- Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church — 1.5 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 1.8 mi away
- Saint John Church — 2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Church — 2.7 mi away in Saint Gabriel, LA
- Saint John the Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Asbery African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Progressive Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in St Gabriel, LA
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