Good Hope Presbyterian Church
Good Hope Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in Bessemer, AL 35020. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer, and one of 2 Presbyterian congregations in the city.
Bessemer, AL, 35020Good Hope Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 352 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Alabama — 11,342 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
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The community around Good Hope Presbyterian Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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: 47.7%
- Food Insecurity: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.2%
- Poverty Rate: 32.0% (18.6–45.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.8%
- Diabetes: 23.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.0% (10.3–25.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Good Hope Presbyterian Church
- Ninth Street First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana MMM Bessemer — 0.3 mi away
- The Vision Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Free Will Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Touching Jesus Independent Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Vision Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- First United Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- First Presbyterian Church of Bessemer — 0.9 mi away
- Hopewell Cumberland Presbyterian — 2.6 mi away
- Fairfield Highlands Presbyterian Church — 4.3 mi away in Midfield, AL
- Shepherd of the Valley Presbyterian Church — 5.3 mi away in McCalla, AL
- Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church — 5.8 mi away in Midfield, AL