Messiah Baptist Church
Messiah Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Bridgeport, CT 06604. It is one of 246 churches in Bridgeport, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
Bridgeport, CT, 06604Website: http://www.mymessiahbaptist.com/
Messiah Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Messiah Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 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: 53.1%
- Social Isolation: 43.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 40.5%
- Poverty Rate: 40.5% (26.9–54.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 33.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.5%
- Unemployment: 14.4% (5.5–23.3%)
- Child Poverty: 30.5% (12.5–48.5%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (7.0–25.4%)
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Obesity: 39.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Bridgeport city is served by 105 churches — about one congregation for every 1,414 residents.
Churches near Messiah Baptist Church
- Iglesia De Dios Incorporada — 0.1 mi away
- True Vine of Holiness Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.1 mi away
- City Harvest Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God Pentecostal — 0.2 mi away
- The Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport — 0.2 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.2 mi away
- Golden Hill United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Great Awakening Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Augustine Cathedral — 0.2 mi away