Canaan Baptist Church Number 2
Canaan Baptist Church Number 2 is a Baptist church in Bessemer, AL 35020. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer, and one of 34 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bessemer, AL, 35020Service times
- Sunday 9:15am · Service begins
Phone: (215) 848-6311 · Website: http://canaanbaptistchurch.org
Canaan Baptist Church Number 2 is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 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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Upcoming events at Canaan Baptist Church Number 2
- Thu, Aug 6 · 12 PM: Zoom 1 Tribe of Judah meeting
- Thu, Aug 6 · 1 PM: Noon Day Prayer
- Thu, Aug 6 · 8 PM: Zoom 1 - Evening Prayer
- Fri, Aug 7 · 11 AM: Historical Committee-Classroom #3
- Fri, Aug 7 · 11 AM: Zoom 2 Tribe of Zebulum
From Canaan Baptist Church Number 2's public calendar (http://canaanbaptistchurch.org). Times are the church's local time.
The community around Canaan Baptist Church Number 2
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 49.0%
- Food Insecurity: 45.4%
- Social Isolation: 42.3%
- Poverty Rate: 39.5% (21.9–57.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
- Diabetes: 25.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (7.7–25.1%)
- Unemployment: 10.2% (3.4–17.1%)
- Depression: 23.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bessemer city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 425 residents.
Churches near Canaan Baptist Church Number 2
- Morning Star United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church of Bessemer — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Saint Pauls Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Interfaith Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Greenleaf Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pettys African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace & Truth Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Church of God — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greenleaf Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- West Side Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away