Twentyfourth Street Church of Christ
Twentyfourth Street Church of Christ is a church at 1630 24th Street North in Bessemer, AL 35020. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer.
Our Vision is to provide for the next generation not only a tradition and culture worthy of the Lord, but also a building they can grow in as well.
Our Beginnings On the glorious and memorial Day, May 10, 1959 this congregation had its very first beginning a humble beginning and a big house (Featured Above) at 1916 5th Ave. N. in the city of Bessemer.
1630 24th Street North, Bessemer, AL, 35020Phone: (659) 257-5133 · Website: http://www.b24coc.org/
Twentyfourth Street Church of Christ is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 618 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Alabama — 9,607 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Stone-Campbell churches asked American Christians to put down their party names and be simply Christians, and they meant it enough to give up their own. Their plea for one table, and their weekly return to it, is one of the few genuinely American gifts to the church's understanding of itself.
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The community around Twentyfourth Street Church of Christ
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 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 47.8%
- Social Isolation: 41.7%
- Food Insecurity: 41.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.8%
- Poverty Rate: 32.5% (17.7–47.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.2%
- Diabetes: 24.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.6%
- Unemployment: 9.0% (2.6–16.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (5.6–17.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bessemer city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 425 residents.
Churches near Twentyfourth Street Church of Christ
- Willing Workers Prayer Bank Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sherman L. Young Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church Carver — 0.3 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bessemer Number 1 Church of God and Christ — 0.5 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Restoration Revival Tabernacle — 0.5 mi away
- Renewed Hope Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Restorationist churches nearby
- ReFresh Christian Church — 2.2 mi away in Hueytown, AL
- Fairfield Highlands Church of Christ — 2.7 mi away in Midfield, AL
- Hueytown Church of Christ — 3.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 4.5 mi away in Midfield, AL
- Grasselli Heights Church of Christ — 4.7 mi away in Birmingham, AL