Southside Baptist Church
Southside Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 709 9th Street, SEDecatur, AL, 35601 in Decatur, AL 35601. It is one of 169 churches in Decatur, and one of 33 Baptist congregations in the city.
Southside Baptist Church aligns with the Southern Baptist Convention and the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 serves as our statement of faith.
Wheelchair accessible
709 9th Street, SEDecatur, AL, 35601, Decatur, AL, 35601Service times
Monday - Thursday | 9:00 AM (as listed)
Phone: (256) 353-8814 · Website: http://www.southsidebaptist.net/
Southside 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 Southside Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 41.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
- Food Insecurity: 24.9%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.7%
- Depression: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 18.2% (9.7–26.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.5% (8.1–20.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Decatur city is served by 68 churches — about one congregation for every 749 residents.
Churches near Southside Baptist Church
- Ninth Street United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.2 mi away
- Life Church HSV — 0.3 mi away
- Purpose Driven Worship Centre — 0.3 mi away
- Harvest Time O. M. Church — 0.4 mi away
- Somerville Road Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Fifth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sixth Avenue Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Oak Park Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Beech Street Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Fifth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Beech Street Church of Christ — 0.8 mi away
- Oak Park Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- GraceLife Church — 0.9 mi away
- Fairview Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away