West Side Baptist Church
West Side 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 Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ.
West Side 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 West Side Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third 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: 48.8%
- Food Insecurity: 44.8%
- Social Isolation: 42.3%
- Poverty Rate: 38.4% (20.9–55.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.2%
- Diabetes: 25.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.5% (7.3–23.8%)
- Unemployment: 10.3% (3.5–17.2%)
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 West Side Baptist Church
- Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ — 0 mi away
- Bessemer Church of God UA — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church of Bessemer — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Saint Pauls Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greenleaf Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church Number 2 — 0.4 mi away
- Pettys African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Life — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greenleaf Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church Number 2 — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away