Eastside Baptist Church
Eastside Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gadsden, AL 35903. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden, and one of 67 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gadsden, AL, 35903Eastside 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 Eastside 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 52.0%
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Food Insecurity: 39.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 35.9% (24.2–47.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 20.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.3%
- Poverty Rate: 26.8% (16.6–37.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.4%
- Depression: 23.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near Eastside Baptist Church
- Evangel Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Salvation Army — 0.5 mi away in gadsden, AL
- Eastside Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Canaan Baptist Church Gadsden — 0.6 mi away
- East Gadsden Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- Victory Temple Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- OutReach Restoration Church — 0.7 mi away
- Pure Holiness Church Of God — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gadsden Baptist Temple — 0.7 mi away
- East Gadsden Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away