Powderly Baptist Church

Powderly Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, AL 35211. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 102 Baptist congregations in the city.

Birmingham, AL, 35211

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Powderly 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 Powderly 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 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: 45.1%
  • Social Isolation: 41.6%
  • Food Insecurity: 32.3%
  • Diabetes: 23.5%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 23.0%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.9%
  • Child Poverty: 22.9% (4.5–41.3%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 15.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.

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