East Florence Missionary Baptist Church
East Florence Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2715 Veterans Drive in Florence, AL 35630. It is one of 211 churches in Florence, and one of 45 Baptist congregations in the city.
2715 Veterans Drive, Florence, AL, 35630East Florence Missionary 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 East Florence Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 32.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.4%
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Poverty Rate: 25.6% (14.9–36.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.7% (11.8–27.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.3%
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.7%
- Depression: 26.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (2.1–12.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Florence city is served by 74 churches — about one congregation for every 481 residents.
Churches near East Florence Missionary Baptist Church
- Nichols Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lonestar Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Magnolia Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Birth Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Enterprise Street Presbyterian Church (historical) — 0.4 mi away
- Ministerios Ebenezer — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Open Door — 0.5 mi away
- Union Avenue Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lonestar Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Avenue Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Weeden Heights Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away