Gardendale First Baptist Church
Gardendale First Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, AL. It is one of 596 churches in Birmingham, and one of 157 Baptist congregations in the city.
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Birmingham, ALService times
- Sunday 4pm–5:45pm
Phone: (205) 488-8731 · Website: https://www.gfbc.com/
Gardendale First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,551 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,352 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.
Ministries at Gardendale First Baptist Church
- Kids Ministry
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Upcoming events at Gardendale First Baptist Church
- Sun, Nov 8 · 4 PM: Choir Rehearsal Sunday — Choir Room - NC105, 316 Mountain Crest Parkway, Gardendale, AL 35071
- Wed, Nov 11 · 6:30 PM: KidzPraise 1st-5th Grade (Children's Choir) — Gardendale First Baptist Church
- Wed, Nov 11 · 6:30 PM: Oasis — Gardendale First Baptist Church, 316 Mountain Crest Parkway, Gardendale, AL 35071
- Thu, Nov 12 · 9 AM: A.C.T.S. - Arts Crafts Talent Sharing — Old Mission Room, 940 Main St , Gardendale, AL 35071
- Thu, Nov 12 · 7 PM: YA Thursday Night Service — SC Worship Center, 316 Mountain Crest Parkway, Gardendale, AL 35071
From Gardendale First Baptist Church's public calendar (https://www.gfbc.com/). Times are the church's local time.
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Latest from GFBC Kids's YouTube channel: GFBC Trunk and Treat 2026 | Puzzle Demonstration (all videos).
The community around Gardendale First 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 say they are socially isolated, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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: 78.0%
- Social Isolation: 48.5%
- Poverty Rate: 34.8%
- Depression: 27.9%
- Food Insecurity: 17.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gardendale First Baptist Church
- Saint Marks Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Trinity - Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Cathedral — 0.5 mi away
- St. Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Stephen the Martyr Catholic University Chapel — 0.6 mi away
- The Church at Southside — 0.6 mi away
- Baptist Church of the Covenant — 0.6 mi away
- Third Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- St. Mary's-On-the-Highland Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Marys Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Southside Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Church at Southside — 0.6 mi away
- Baptist Church of the Covenant — 0.6 mi away
- Glen Iris Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- 23rd Street Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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