Galilee Missionary Baptist Church of Bessemer
Galilee Missionary Baptist Church of Bessemer is a church at 1134 Simmons St in Bessemer, AL 35020-5480. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer.
1134 Simmons St, Bessemer, AL, 35020-5480Phone: +12058007222 · Website: http://www.galileebessemer.org/
Galilee Missionary Baptist Church of Bessemer 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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The community around Galilee Missionary Baptist Church of Bessemer
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: 48.8%
- Food Insecurity: 45.2%
- Social Isolation: 42.3%
- Poverty Rate: 39.2% (21.7–56.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.4%
- Diabetes: 25.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.4% (7.7–25.2%)
- Unemployment: 10.2% (3.4–17.0%)
- Depression: 23.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Galilee Missionary Baptist Church of Bessemer
- Canaan Baptist Church Number 2 — 0.1 mi away
- Morning Star United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bessemer Church of God UA — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Saint Pauls Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- West Side Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle of the Word — 0.3 mi away
- Greenleaf Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Canaan Baptist Church Number 2 — 0.1 mi away
- West Side Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greenleaf Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away