Greater Lily Star Baptist Church
Greater Lily Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fairfield, AL 35064. It is one of 37 churches in Fairfield, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
Fairfield, AL, 35064Website: http://www.glsbc.org/
Greater Lily Star 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 Greater Lily Star Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 66.0% (48.4–83.6%)
- Obesity: 49.5%
- Social Isolation: 42.6%
- Food Insecurity: 42.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.5%
- Diabetes: 25.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.0%
- Poverty Rate: 29.9% (18.5–41.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.1% (8.3–22.0%)
- Unemployment: 8.5% (2.7–14.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Fairfield city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 565 residents.
Churches near Greater Lily Star Baptist Church
- Shady Grove Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bible Way House of Prayer — 0.2 mi away in Birmingham, AL
- True Love Church — 0.2 mi away in Birmingham, AL
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away in Birmingham, AL
- Greater New Antioch Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Birmingham, AL
- Ensley Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away in Birmingham, AL
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Birmingham, AL
- Fairfield First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Fairfield Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ensley Community Church — 0.6 mi away in Birmingham, AL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Greater New Antioch Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Birmingham, AL
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Birmingham, AL
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Birmingham, AL
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Birmingham, AL