Brister Memorial Southern Baptist Church
Brister Memorial Southern Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Compton, CA 90221. It is one of 164 churches in Compton, and one of 30 Baptist congregations in the city.
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Compton, CA, 90221Phone: (424) 384-0606 · Website: http://www.bristerbc.org/
Brister Memorial Southern Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,885 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 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.
Ministries at Brister Memorial Southern Baptist Church
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The community around Brister Memorial Southern Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is two thousand 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.
- Social Isolation: 45.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.9%
- Food Insecurity: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 8.1% (3.5–12.7%)
- Child Poverty: 29.5% (12.1–46.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.5% (12.2–30.9%)
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.5% (7.0–18.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Compton city is served by 76 churches — about one congregation for every 1,254 residents.
Churches near Brister Memorial Southern Baptist Church
- Glory Bound Missionary Baptist — 0 mi away
- Iglesia Monte Sinaí — 0.1 mi away
- Long Beach Samoan Community Church — 0.2 mi away in Long Beach, CA
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- My Upper Room — 0.4 mi away in Long Beach, CA
- Holy Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away in Long Beach, CA
- Cristo Esta A La Puerta — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church of Compton — 0.5 mi away
- Abundant Grace Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Solid Rock Mission Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Calvary Baptist Church of Compton — 0.5 mi away
- New Brighter Day Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Starlight Church — 0.6 mi away
- Hope of Glory Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Garden of Eden Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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