Paradise Baptist Church
Paradise Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 9704 Empire Rd in Oakland, CA 94603-1050. It is one of 485 churches in Oakland, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
To win the lost and develop Christians who are committed in the areas of membership, worship, discipleship, stewardship, relationship and leadership while maintaining the unity of the Spirit.
9704 Empire Rd, Oakland, CA, 94603-1050Phone: +15105628370 · Website: http://www.pbc5star.org
Paradise 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 Paradise Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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: 43.3%
- Food Insecurity: 29.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
- Diabetes: 13.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Paradise Baptist Church
- Christian Church Homes of Northern California — 0.4 mi away
- Mountain Of Fire and Miracles Ministries — 0.6 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Greater Mount Calvary Church — 0.6 mi away
- Israel The Church of Jesus Oakland — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Community Reformed Church — 0.8 mi away
- City of Refuge UCC — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Cosmopolitan Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- East Oakland Southern Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
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