Alex Chapel
Alex Chapel is a Baptist church in Newbern, AL 36765. It is one of 14 churches in Newbern, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Newbern, AL, 36765Alex Chapel 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 Alex Chapel
It takes 6.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 69.8%
- Obesity: 48.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.5%
- Food Insecurity: 30.9%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Unemployment: 13.1% (1.9–25.8%)
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Poverty Rate: 23.3% (13.4–33.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Alex Chapel
- Mount Sinai Church — 1.7 mi away
- Whitsitt Church — 2.2 mi away in Greensboro, AL
- Mount Horeb Church — 2.8 mi away
- Hunter Chapel — 2.9 mi away in Faunsdale, AL
- Saint Michaels Church — 3.7 mi away in Faunsdale, AL
- First Baptist Church — 3.7 mi away
- Sanctified Church — 4 mi away
- Mount Valley Church — 4.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 4.4 mi away
- Mars Hill Church — 4.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Newbern Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Gallion, AL
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away in Greensboro, AL
- Gallion Baptist Church — 6.9 mi away in Gallion, AL
- Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church — 7.4 mi away in Uniontown, AL