Union Avenue Missionary Baptist Church
Union Avenue Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Florence, AL 35630. It is one of 211 churches in Florence, and one of 50 Baptist congregations in the city.
Florence, AL, 35630Shares a ministry location with Ministerios Ebenezer.
Union Avenue Missionary 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 — 71,419 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 Union Avenue Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.6%
- Food Insecurity: 30.5%
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Poverty Rate: 25.9% (15.5–36.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.0% (11.1–25.0%)
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (2.9–12.6%)
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 Union Avenue Missionary Baptist Church
- Ministerios Ebenezer — 0 mi away
- Lonestar Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- East Florence Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Nichols Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Magnolia Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Weeden Heights Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Weeden Heights United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Eastwood Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lonestar Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- East Florence Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Weeden Heights Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away