Greenleaf Baptist Church
Greenleaf Baptist Church 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, 35020Greenleaf Baptist Church 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 Greenleaf Baptist Church
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: 49.3%
- Food Insecurity: 45.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.3%
- Poverty Rate: 39.2% (22.0–56.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.7%
- Diabetes: 25.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.5% (7.2–23.7%)
- Unemployment: 9.6% (3.0–16.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Bessemer city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 425 residents.
Churches near Greenleaf Baptist Church
- Pettys African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Saint Pauls Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Life — 0.1 mi away
- Genesis United Apostolic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church Number 2 — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Interfaith Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Morning Star United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church of Bessemer — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church Number 2 — 0.3 mi away
- West Side Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away