Joy Baptist Church
Joy Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Selma, AL 36701. It is one of 125 churches in Selma, and one of 28 Baptist congregations in the city.
Stated in four simple words it is, “Love God, Love others”.
Our purpose is to fulfill the Great Commandment and the Great Commission by loving God and loving others.
Selma, AL, 36701Service times
- Wednesday 6pm · youth
- Sunday 10am · service
Joy 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 — 71,352 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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Latest from Joy Baptist Church's YouTube channel: Do You Love Me?, Pastor Jesse Brady - Complete Servive (all videos).
The community around Joy Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 31.0%
- Diabetes: 20.2%
- Unemployment: 12.8% (1.9–25.1%)
- Obesity: 45.0%
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Poverty Rate: 25.1% (15.4–34.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Joy Baptist Church
- Gateway Ministries — 0.7 mi away
- Westwood Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Restoration Place Church — 1.3 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Covenant Christian Church — 1.3 mi away
- Ellwood Community Church — 1.7 mi away
- New Covenant Presbyterian Church — 2 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Elbethel Church — 2.3 mi away
- Cedar Grove Church — 2.3 mi away in Valley Grande, AL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Gateway Ministries — 0.7 mi away
- Westwood Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Covenant Christian Church — 1.3 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away