Shorterville Baptist Church
Shorterville Baptist Church is a Baptist church in AL 36373.
AL, 36373Shorterville Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,551 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,417 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.
Find Shorterville Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Shorterville Baptist Church
It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.2%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Obesity: 43.0%
- Social Isolation: 34.7%
- Poverty Rate: 23.6% (14.4–32.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.3%
- Depression: 23.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Shorterville Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Greater Friendship A.M.E. Church — 1.5 mi away in Shorterville, AL
- Pentecostal Gospel Church — 2.2 mi away in Abbeville, AL
- Old Salem Church — 3.1 mi away
- Old Friendship African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3.2 mi away
- Poplar Springs Church — 3.3 mi away
- Pilgrims Rest Freewill Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Abbeville, AL
- Old Zion Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Abbeville, AL
- Fort Gaines United Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
- Fort Gaines Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Pilgrims Rest Freewill Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Abbeville, AL
- Old Zion Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away in Abbeville, AL
- Fort Gaines Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA
- Springfield Missionary Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away in Fort Gaines, GA