Westlawn Baptist Church
Westlawn Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2515 17th Street, SW Huntsville, AL, 35805 in Huntsville, AL 35805. It is one of 404 churches in Huntsville, and one of 73 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our call is to glorify God and build His kingdom by helping people LOVE GOD, LOVE PEOPLE, and MAKE DISCIPLES.
For generations, Westlawn Baptist Church has been a welcoming family of believers committed to sharing the love of Christ with everyone we meet.
2515 17th Street, SW Huntsville, AL, 35805, Huntsville, AL, 35805Website: https://westlawnbaptist.org/
Westlawn 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 — 71,419 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 Westlawn Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 48.8%
- Poverty Rate: 34.5% (23.1–45.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.3% (13.0–27.6%)
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.8%
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 10.4% (2.1–18.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Huntsville city is served by 199 churches — about one congregation for every 1,044 residents.
Churches near Westlawn Baptist Church
- The Church of God at Westlawn;Westlawn Church of God — 0 mi away
- Emmanuel Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Jordan Park Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Assembly of God;First Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Assembly House of Every Nation — 0.3 mi away
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sixth Avenue Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Bridge — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Governors Drive Church of God — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Freewill Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- West Huntsville Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Huntsville Park Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Hillsboro Heights Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- The Well Church Huntsville — 1.2 mi away
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