Shafter Missionary Baptist Church
Shafter Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Shafter, CA 93263. It is one of 27 churches in Shafter, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Shafter, CA, 93263Shafter Missionary 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 Shafter Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 2,200 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: 37.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Child Poverty: 36.8% (21.9–51.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Poverty Rate: 28.9% (19.8–38.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Obesity: 39.3%
- Depression: 23.4%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Shafter city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 1,407 residents.
Churches near Shafter Missionary Baptist Church
- Saint Therese Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ebenezer Reformed Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Shafter Pentecostal Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- The Gathering @ Shafter — 0.3 mi away
- Jesus Saves International Church — 0.3 mi away
- Window of Heaven — 0.4 mi away
- Shafter Christian Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- La Rosa De Saron Assembly of God — 0.4 mi away
- Home Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Southern Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Congregational Baptist Church of Shafter — 0.7 mi away
- Truelight Missionary Baptist Church — 6.6 mi away in Wasco, CA
- First Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away in Wasco, CA
- Griffith Avenue Baptist Church — 7.5 mi away in Wasco, CA
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