Sunnyside Baptist Church

Sunnyside Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 9317 Budlong ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90044 in Los Angeles, CA 90047. It is one of 2,252 churches in Los Angeles, and one of 220 Baptist congregations in the city.

Sunnyside 5 is a faith-inspired non-profit project that was initiated to serve young people experiencing homelessness who need supportive transitional housing.

Sunnyside Church is located in the Westmont area of South LA, also referred to as “Death Alley” because it has the highest homicide rate in LA County.

9317 Budlong ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90044, Los Angeles, CA, 90047

Website: https://www.sunnysidefive.org/

Sunnyside Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,843 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 71,417 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 Sunnyside Baptist Church

  • Transitional Housing

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The community around Sunnyside Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 2,400 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: 45.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 36.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
  • Housing Insecurity: 29.8%
  • Transportation Barriers: 17.8%
  • Diabetes: 16.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
  • Unemployment: 11.4% (4.9–18.6%)
  • Child Poverty: 25.3% (11.1–39.4%)
  • Poverty Rate: 19.6% (11.7–27.5%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Los Angeles city is served by 867 churches — about one congregation for every 4,457 residents.

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