Arizona Karen Baptist Church
Arizona Karen Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2409 N 36th St in Phoenix, AZ 85008-2203. It is one of 989 churches in Phoenix, and one of 25 Baptist congregations in the city.
As believers in Jesus Christ, we are a caring church family dedicated to sharing our faith, hope and love with immigrants from Burma who have found freedom in America.
Our church, Arizona Karen Baptist Church (AKBC), is made up of about 500 Karen refugees from the Burma-Thai border, recently resettled in Phoenix after surviving atrocious persecution by the Myanmar military Junta.
2409 N 36th St, Phoenix, AZ, 85008-2203Service times
- Sunday 11am · School Bible Study
Phone: +16022737383 · Website: https://akbc.us/
Arizona Karen Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 504 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arizona — 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 Arizona Karen Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,300 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: 25.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.8% (16.2–33.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.5%
- Poverty Rate: 19.8% (11.0–28.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
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