First United Pentecostal Church
First United Pentecostal Church is a Pentecostal church in Bessemer, AL 35020. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer, and one of 2 Pentecostal congregations in the city.
Bessemer, AL, 35020Shares a ministry location with New Vision Ministries.
First United Pentecostal Church is part of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family of churches in The American Church Story. 494 congregations of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family gather across Alabama — 17,437 across the United States on The Church Map.
Pentecostalism began in a Los Angeles livery stable with Black and white believers worshiping together while segregation was the law, and it has become the fastest-growing Christian movement in history. Its recovery of the Spirit's gifts, and the songs it has written, have crossed into nearly every other tradition on this map.
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The community around First United Pentecostal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 54.3% (35.5–73.1%)
- Obesity: 46.1%
- Social Isolation: 41.7%
- Food Insecurity: 38.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Poverty Rate: 30.3% (19.2–41.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
- Diabetes: 22.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.6% (9.1–22.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Bessemer city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 425 residents.
Churches near First United Pentecostal Church
- New Vision Ministries — 0 mi away
- Calvary Free Will Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Mission Holiness Church of God Number 3 — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saddler's Chapel AME Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt. Hebron Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Good Hope Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ninth Street First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Light Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana MMM Bessemer — 0.7 mi away
More Pentecostal churches nearby
- New Grace Covenant Assembly of God — 0.8 mi away
- Blessed Assembly Church of God — 1.5 mi away
- The Sanctuary Apostolic Pentecostal Church — 1.8 mi away
- Faith to Favor Worship Center — 2.6 mi away in Hueytown, AL
- Hopewell Church — 2.8 mi away