Mount Gilead Baptist Church
Mount Gilead Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Oakland, CA 94607. It is one of 485 churches in Oakland, and one of 68 Baptist congregations in the city.
Oakland, CA, 94607Mount Gilead 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.
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The community around Mount Gilead Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 42.7%
- Food Insecurity: 29.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (13.9–34.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
- Unemployment: 9.2% (3.6–14.9%)
- Depression: 23.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.7%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Oakland city is served by 272 churches — about one congregation for every 1,609 residents.
Churches near Mount Gilead Baptist Church
- Emanuel Church of Christ Holiness — 0.1 mi away
- Mingleton Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Taylor Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Christian Center — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- West Oakland Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Coopers African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Beth-Eden Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Beth-Eden Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Light Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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