Griffith Avenue Baptist Church
Griffith Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 408 Griffith Ave in Wasco, CA 93280-1377. It is one of 27 churches in Wasco.
Driven to seek, to serve, to share.
408 Griffith Ave, Wasco, CA, 93280-1377Service times
- Saturday 7pm
Phone: +16617582516 · Website: http://www.gabcministries.com/
Griffith Avenue 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 Griffith Avenue Baptist Church
- Clothes Giveaway
- Food Giveaway
- Shower and Laundry Facilities
- Senior Food Giveaway
- Emergency Food Pantry
- NA Meetings
- 12 Step Program
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The community around Griffith Avenue Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 40.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 27.6%
- Obesity: 40.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
- Child Poverty: 31.3% (13.8–48.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 23.7% (12.9–34.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (0.3–14.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Griffith Avenue Baptist Church
- Canyon Hills Wasco — 0.2 mi away
- Assembly of God Church of Wasco — 0.2 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wasco Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
- Central Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- LifeHouse Church Wasco — 0.3 mi away
- Free Will Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- United Methodist Church of Wasco — 0.3 mi away
- Family Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Central Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Truelight Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Southern Baptist Church — 7.3 mi away in Shafter, CA
- Congregational Baptist Church of Shafter — 7.4 mi away in Shafter, CA