South Highland Baptist Church
South Highland 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, 35020Shares a ministry location with Visionary Ministry Church.
South Highland 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 South Highland Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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: 75.1%
- Obesity: 49.4%
- Food Insecurity: 45.1%
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.5%
- Poverty Rate: 32.1% (19.9–44.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.9%
- Diabetes: 25.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (7.8–17.3%)
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 South Highland Baptist Church
- Visionary Ministry Church — 0 mi away
- Twentyfirst Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Bessemer — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Fourteenth Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ward Chapel A.M.E. Church — 0.5 mi away
- Love Conquers All — 0.5 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Perfecting Reconciliation Church International — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Twentyfirst Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Fourteenth Street Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Fifteenth Street Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Peter Primitive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away