New Zion Baptist Church
New Zion 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, 35020New Zion 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 New Zion Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 75.5%
- Obesity: 50.7%
- Food Insecurity: 47.2%
- Social Isolation: 42.5%
- Poverty Rate: 39.9% (24.1–55.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.0%
- Diabetes: 27.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
- Unemployment: 8.2% (1.9–16.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.1% (6.3–19.8%)
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 New Zion Baptist Church
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Restoration Revival Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Spiritual Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bessemer Number 1 Church of God and Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church Carver — 0.2 mi away
- Sherman L. Young Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Porters Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Renewed Hope Ministries — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church Carver — 0.2 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away