Forrest Avenue Baptist Church
Forrest Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Gadsden, AL 35904. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden, and one of 75 Baptist congregations in the city.
Gadsden, AL, 35904Forrest Avenue 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 Forrest Avenue 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 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 63.3% (44.5–82.1%)
- Obesity: 53.2%
- Food Insecurity: 43.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.5%
- Poverty Rate: 40.7% (27.7–53.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 28.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.7% (13.9–33.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.9%
- Diabetes: 22.5%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Depression: 28.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.8%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (0.8–19.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near Forrest Avenue Baptist Church
- Alabama City Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- Church On the Rock — 0.1 mi away
- Sansom Avenue Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Freedom Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Etowah Cumberland Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Word of Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gospel Truth Light House Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kyle Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kyle Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Alabama City — 0.4 mi away
- New Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away