Balkum Baptist Upward

Balkum Baptist Upward is a church at 1153 CR-55 in Headland, AL 36345-6429. It is one of 33 churches in Headland.

1153 CR-55, Headland, AL, 36345-6429

Phone: +13346933717 · Website: http://www.balkumbaptistchurch.org/

Balkum Baptist Upward 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 Balkum Baptist Upward

It takes 3.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 34.2%
  • Obesity: 38.7%
  • Depression: 23.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 15.7%
  • Diabetes: 14.0%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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