Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 500 Clay Street in Houston, TX 77002. It is one of 3,187 churches in Houston, and one of 579 Baptist congregations in the city.
In 1866, members of Antioch worshiped under a “bush arbor” erected on the edge of Buffalo Bayou, and as membership grew, a box-house type structure was constructed at “Baptist Hill” (on the corner of Rusk and Bagby) for church ministry and service.
500 Clay Street, Houston, TX, 77002Phone: +1 713-652-0738 · Website: http://www.antiochdowntown.com/
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 79.5%
- Poverty Rate: 19.9% (13.4–26.4%)
- Unemployment: 6.0% (2.1–10.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
- St. John Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Chapel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lakewood church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Houston — 0.3 mi away
- The Church Of Latter-Day Cats — 0.3 mi away
- Lighthouse Houston Church — 0.3 mi away
- Rose of Sharon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Houstons First Baptist Church Downtown — 0.4 mi away
- Bibleway Missionary Baptist church — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Cross Catholic Chapel — 0.5 mi away