El Bethel Baptist Church
El Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 8723 Comal Street in Houston, TX 77051. It is one of 3,338 churches in Houston, and one of 641 Baptist congregations in the city.
8723 Comal Street, Houston, TX, 77051Phone: (713) 733-3290 · Website: http://www.elbethelmbc.org/
El Bethel Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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 El Bethel Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 52.1%
- Child Poverty: 46.5% (27.4–65.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.5%
- Poverty Rate: 38.8% (27.0–50.6%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 38.7% (27.8–49.7%)
- Unemployment: 32.0% (17.4–46.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.7%
- Diabetes: 23.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near El Bethel Baptist Church
- True Vine Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle of Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Deliverance Charismatic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Orange Grove Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Vision Church Houston Campus — 0.2 mi away
- New Testament Outreach International — 0.2 mi away
- Brookhaven Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Gideon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Orange Grove Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Vision Church Houston Campus — 0.2 mi away
- Gideon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away