Salvation Army
Salvation Army is a Salvation Army church in Bridgeport, CT 06604. It is one of 246 churches in Bridgeport.
Bridgeport, CT, 06604Salvation Army is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 20 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Connecticut — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Salvation Army
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. More than a third 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 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: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.3%
- Poverty Rate: 32.7% (21.6–43.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 32.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 27.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.3%
- Child Poverty: 30.5% (12.5–48.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.2%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 10.6% (3.2–18.1%)
- Obesity: 36.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (5.6–21.0%)
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 Salvation Army
- Church of God Pentecostal — 0.1 mi away
- The Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport — 0.1 mi away
- Great Awakening Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.1 mi away
- True Vine of Holiness Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Incorporada — 0.2 mi away
- Golden Hill United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Messiah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bridgeport Bible Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Augustine Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
More Wesleyan-Holiness churches nearby
- Church of the Nazarene — 1 mi away
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