Rising Star Baptist Church
Rising Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Sylacauga, AL 35150. It is one of 104 churches in Sylacauga, and one of 26 Baptist congregations in the city.
Sylacauga, AL, 35150Rising Star 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 — 71,874 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 Rising Star Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 48.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.7%
- Food Insecurity: 29.6%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Poverty Rate: 29.2% (18.8–39.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (2.5–17.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Sylacauga city is served by 23 churches — about one congregation for every 302 residents.
Churches near Rising Star Baptist Church
- Saint Jude Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Covenant Reformed Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Andrews Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Thomas United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sylacauga Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Sylacauga Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Covenant Reformed Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Sylacauga — 0.8 mi away
- Sylavon Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Westview Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away