Higher Ground Baptist Church
Higher Ground Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2955 Fairview Rd in Gadsden, AL 35904. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
2955 Fairview Rd, Gadsden, AL, 35904Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8am
Phone: (423) 245-3141 · Website: https://www.higherground.org/
Higher Ground 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 Higher Ground Baptist Church
Within about a mile of 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 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: 44.7%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
- Food Insecurity: 23.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.9% (10.8–25.0%)
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Depression: 26.5%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (8.3–31.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Higher Ground Baptist Church
- Life Assurance Apostolic Worship Center — 0.7 mi away in Attalla, AL
- Church of the Highlands - Gadsden Campus — 0.7 mi away
- Siberton Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Attalla, AL
- Antioch Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away in Attalla, AL
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Attalla, AL
- Church of God — 1.2 mi away in Attalla, AL
- Cherry Street Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Attalla, AL
- Hughes Avenue Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Attalla, AL
- Shady Grove Church — 1.3 mi away in Attalla, AL
- Bride of Christ Worship Center — 1.3 mi away in Attalla, AL
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Attalla, AL
- Cherry Street Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Attalla, AL
- Hughes Avenue Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Attalla, AL
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