Brookhaven Baptist Church
Brookhaven Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Decatur, AL 35601. It is one of 169 churches in Decatur, and one of 33 Baptist congregations in the city.
Decatur, AL, 35601Shares a ministry location with Progressive Christian Outreach Ministry.
Brookhaven 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 Brookhaven 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 nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 51.1%
- Food Insecurity: 49.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.5%
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.4% (18.7–34.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 25.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.1%
- Diabetes: 23.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.1%
- Poverty Rate: 23.8% (14.4–33.3%)
- Depression: 24.2%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (1.6–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Decatur city is served by 68 churches — about one congregation for every 749 residents.
Churches near Brookhaven Baptist Church
- Progressive Christian Outreach Ministry — 0 mi away
- Pentecostal Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- God's Love Covenant Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seventh Avenue West Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Stephens PB Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- First Decatur AME Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Memorial Drive Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St James Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Westside Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Free Will Baptist — 0.8 mi away
- Bell Primitive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Westside Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Fifth Avenue Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away