West Union Baptist Church
West Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Geiger, AL 35459. It is one of 19 churches in Geiger, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Geiger, AL, 35459West Union 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 West Union Baptist Church
It takes 6.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 56.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Food Insecurity: 30.4%
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Poverty Rate: 27.5% (17.7–37.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.2%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 8.2% (1.7–14.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (6.7–17.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near West Union Baptist Church
- Emelle Church — 2.5 mi away in Emelle, AL
- Brown Chapel — 2.7 mi away
- Saint Peters Church — 3.3 mi away
- Dawsey Church — 3.5 mi away
- Mary Winston Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Bethel Church — 4.1 mi away
- Shiloh Zion Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Livingston, AL
- New Bethel Church — 5 mi away
- Sun Light Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Dawsey Church — 3.5 mi away
- Mary Winston Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Shiloh Zion Baptist Church — 4.7 mi away in Livingston, AL
- Sun Light Baptist Church — 5.4 mi away