Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Lipscomb, AL 35020. It is one of 7 churches in Lipscomb.
Lipscomb, AL, 35020Shares a ministry location with Christ City Church.
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 Union Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 64.8%
- Obesity: 49.4%
- Food Insecurity: 47.7%
- Social Isolation: 43.5%
- Poverty Rate: 42.6% (30.2–55.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 25.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.9% (9.0–22.8%)
- Unemployment: 10.4% (1.8–19.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lipscomb city is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 278 residents.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Christ City Church — 0 mi away
- Lipscomb Church of God On Avenue K — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Of Olives Full Gospel Church — 0.4 mi away in Bessemer, AL
- Old St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Pastor Alfonza January 1983-2022 — 0.4 mi away in Bessemer, AL
- Woodward Chapel AME — 0.5 mi away in Bessemer, AL
- First Baptist East Bessemer — 0.7 mi away in Bessemer, AL
- Victory Through Faith Church — 0.7 mi away in Bessemer, AL
- Lipscomb Church of God — 0.8 mi away
- Brickyard Hills Church of God — 0.9 mi away in Bessemer, AL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Bessemer, AL
- Bethel Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away in Bessemer, AL
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in Bessemer, AL
- Beulah Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away in Bessemer, AL