Ekklesia Missionary Baptist

Ekklesia Missionary Baptist is a United Church Of Christ church at 3007 Hatch Boulevard in Sheffield, AL 35660. It is one of 43 churches in Sheffield.

3007 Hatch Boulevard, Sheffield, AL, 35660

Website: https://www.ekklesiaministries.org/

Ekklesia Missionary Baptist is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 9 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Alabama — 2,928 across the United States on The Church Map.

The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.

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The community around Ekklesia Missionary Baptist

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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: 41.3%
  • Social Isolation: 36.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 24.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 24.5% (14.8–34.1%)
  • Diabetes: 16.5%
  • Depression: 26.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Sheffield city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 274 residents.

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