Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church
Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church is a church at 2600 Fairfax Ave in Bessemer, AL 35020-5261. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer.
2600 Fairfax Ave, Bessemer, AL, 35020-5261Phone: +12054261941 · Website: http://www.sgmbcal.org/
Shady Grove Missionary 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 Shady Grove Missionary 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 73.4%
- Food Insecurity: 54.1%
- Obesity: 52.4%
- Poverty Rate: 52.2%
- Social Isolation: 44.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.2%
- Diabetes: 27.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.7%
- Unemployment: 13.5% (2.6–24.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (8.1–17.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church
- Ward Chapel A.M.E. Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Little True Vine Primitive Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist East Bessemer — 0.4 mi away
- Twentyfirst Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Through Faith Church — 0.5 mi away
- Brickyard Hills Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- South Highland Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Twentyfirst Street Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- South Highland Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Peter Primitive Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away