Grace Baptist Church
Grace Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2602 Cole Avenue in Florence, AL 35630. It is one of 211 churches in Florence, and one of 50 Baptist congregations in the city.
2602 Cole Avenue, Florence, AL, 35630Grace Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,551 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,417 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 Grace 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: 33.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Poverty Rate: 25.3% (14.5–36.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.9% (11.8–28.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.8%
- Depression: 26.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
- Unemployment: 7.0% (2.1–12.2%)
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 Grace Baptist Church
- East Florence Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Nichols Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lonestar Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Magnolia Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- New Birth Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Enterprise Street Presbyterian Church (historical) — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Open Door — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Ministerios Ebenezer — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- East Florence Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Lonestar Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Union Avenue Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Weeden Heights Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away