Smyrna Baptist Church
Smyrna Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Dothan, AL 36303. It is one of 167 churches in Dothan, and one of 30 Baptist congregations in the city.
Dothan, AL, 36303Smyrna 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 Smyrna Baptist Church
In the few miles around 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 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 48.3%
- Child Poverty: 46.1%
- Social Isolation: 42.4%
- Food Insecurity: 38.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.8%
- Poverty Rate: 31.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 22.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (8.7–14.5%)
- Unemployment: 6.4% (3.5–9.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Dothan city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 912 residents.
Churches near Smyrna Baptist Church
- Weslyan Independent Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 1.8 mi away
- Sardis Missionary Baptist Church, Headland, Ala. — 1.9 mi away in Headland, AL
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Cowarts, AL
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Eastside Free Will Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- 7th United Holiness Church — 2.2 mi away
- Stringer Street AME Church — 2.3 mi away
- Livinghope Church (cogop)- Dothan — 2.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sardis Missionary Baptist Church, Headland, Ala. — 1.9 mi away in Headland, AL
- Faith Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away in Cowarts, AL
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- Eastside Free Will Baptist Church — 2 mi away
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away