Shepherd Baptist Church
Shepherd Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Fayette, AL 35555. It is one of 77 churches in Fayette, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
Fayette, AL, 35555Shepherd 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.
Find Shepherd Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Shepherd Baptist Church
It takes 4.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Unemployment: 12.2% (6.5–18.1%)
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.1%
- Food Insecurity: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 17.4%
- Depression: 25.7%
- Poverty Rate: 16.6% (8.9–24.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Shepherd Baptist Church
- Shady Grove Church — 1.3 mi away
- New Hope Independent Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Spring Hill Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Old Canaan Church — 3.4 mi away
- Unity Church — 3.7 mi away
- Shelton Chapel — 3.8 mi away
- Concord Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- El Bethel United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away
- Mayfield Church — 4.4 mi away
- Zion Chapel Methodist Church — 4.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Spring Hill Baptist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Concord Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
- Chapel Hill Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Northport, AL
- Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away