Dwight Baptist Church
Dwight Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 520 North 29th Street, Hokes Bluff, AL, 35904-1599 in Gadsden, AL 35904. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden, and one of 75 Baptist congregations in the city.
Thisichurch has served Alabama City and Gadsden, Alabama for 120+ years and we are excited to see God revitalize our church and city with the Gospel of the Kingdom.
520 North 29th Street, Hokes Bluff, AL, 35904-1599, Gadsden, AL, 35904Service times
- Sunday, Wednesday 9am · Mid-Week Study School-
Phone: (760) 885-9889 · Website: http://dwightbaptist.com/
Dwight 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 — 71,418 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 Dwight Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 60.5% (42.0–79.0%)
- Obesity: 50.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.5%
- Food Insecurity: 36.5%
- Poverty Rate: 33.0% (20.4–45.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.4% (17.0–35.7%)
- Diabetes: 20.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.3%
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Depression: 27.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
- Unemployment: 11.3% (1.7–20.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near Dwight Baptist Church
- New Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Alabama City Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- United Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Alabama City United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cathedral Of Praise — 0.3 mi away
- Assembly of God Tabernacle Church — 0.4 mi away
- Word of Life Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Alabama City — 0.4 mi away
- Daystar Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Alabama City — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Smiths Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Forrest Avenue Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away