Higher Ground Baptist Church

Higher Ground Baptist Church is a church at 2955 Fairview Rd in Gadsden, AL 35904-1089. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden.

2955 Fairview Rd, Gadsden, AL, 35904-1089

Phone: (256) 547-8752 · Website: https://highergroundbaptist.com/

Higher Ground 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 Higher Ground Baptist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 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: 43.2%
  • Social Isolation: 33.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
  • Diabetes: 17.2%
  • Depression: 25.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 18.1%
  • Unemployment: 7.4% (1.9–13.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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