Smiths Chapel Missionary Baptist Church
Smiths Chapel Missionary 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, 35904Smiths Chapel Missionary 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 Smiths Chapel Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 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: 51.4% (34.0–68.9%)
- Obesity: 48.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Food Insecurity: 33.1%
- Poverty Rate: 31.3% (19.3–43.3%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.7% (15.4–29.9%)
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Depression: 27.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (1.1–13.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Smiths Chapel Missionary Baptist Church
- Ward Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lookout Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Malone Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.4 mi away
- Dwight Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- High Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Cathedral Of Praise — 0.6 mi away
- Word of Life Church — 0.6 mi away
- Charles Street Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Alabama City United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lookout Avenue Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Malone Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Dwight Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- High Street Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kyle Avenue Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away