Willing Workers Prayer Bank Church

The community around Willing Workers Prayer Bank Church

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 two thousand 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: 46.7%
• Social Isolation: 41.3%
• Food Insecurity: 38.6%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.3%
• Housing Insecurity: 26.8%
• Diabetes: 23.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.0%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
• Poverty Rate: 29.8% (15.8–43.7%)
• Transportation Barriers: 18.5%
• Unemployment: 9.2% (2.8–16.6%)
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.1% (5.4–16.8%)

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 Willing Workers Prayer Bank Church

• Twentyfourth Street Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
• Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Sherman L. Young Ministries — 0.4 mi away
• First Baptist Church Carver — 0.4 mi away
• Zion Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
• Bessemer Number 1 Church of God and Christ — 0.5 mi away
• First Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
• New Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
• Restoration Revival Tabernacle — 0.6 mi away
• Renewed Hope Ministries — 0.6 mi away