East Thomas Baptist Church
East Thomas Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, AL 35204. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 102 Baptist congregations in the city.
Birmingham, AL, 35204Website: http://www.firstbaptistchurcheastthomas.com/
East Thomas 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 East Thomas Baptist 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 50.9% (41.0–74.2%)
- Obesity: 47.6%
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Food Insecurity: 39.7%
- Poverty Rate: 34.7% (24.5–44.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.5%
- Diabetes: 25.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.6% (13.1–32.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.4%
- Unemployment: 14.4% (3.9–25.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.
Churches near East Thomas Baptist Church
- Saint Matthews African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Congregational Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Graymont — 0.5 mi away
- St Peter's Missionary Baptist — 0.5 mi away
- Our Lady Queen of the Universe Church — 0.5 mi away
- CHRISTian Faith Outreach(CFO) — 0.6 mi away
- Brown Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Old Pentecost Temple — 0.6 mi away
- Heavenly Places Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church of Graymont — 0.5 mi away
- Lily Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Sardis Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Hebron Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
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