East La Follette Baptist Church
East La Follette Baptist Church is a Baptist church in La Follette, TN 37766. It is one of 57 churches in La Follette, and one of 18 Baptist congregations in the city.
La Follette, TN, 37766East La Follette Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,860 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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 East La Follette Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults here carry depression. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Depression: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
- Obesity: 44.4%
- Child Poverty: 33.6% (14.6–52.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 27.7% (17.1–38.4%)
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.3–11.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
La Follette city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 481 residents.
Churches near East La Follette Baptist Church
- LMC Men's Fellowship of Christian Service — 0.2 mi away
- La Follette Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away in LaFollette, TN
- La Follette Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Clare's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Independent Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pastor Tim Russell — 0.5 mi away
- Indiana Avenue Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away in Lafollette, TN
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Independent Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Indiana Avenue Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- West LaFollette Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Cedar Hill Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
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