Progressive Baptist Church
Progressive 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, 70788Progressive 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 Progressive Baptist Church
It takes 3.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 28.5%
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Poverty Rate: 22.0% (11.5–32.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
- Diabetes: 17.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Depression: 25.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (5.5–22.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (1.9–13.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Progressive Baptist Church
- Mount Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Progressive Baptist — 0.5 mi away
- City of Refuge Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Paul Church — 0.9 mi away
- Asbery African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint John Church — 1.3 mi away
- Mount Calvary Church — 1.3 mi away in Saint Gabriel, LA
- First Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Sacred Heart Chapel — 2.2 mi away in Carville, LA
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in St Gabriel, LA
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