Shalom Baptist Church
Shalom Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 83 Cherry Street in Waterbury, CT 06702. It is one of 98 churches in Waterbury, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
83 Cherry Street, Waterbury, CT, 06702Website: http://ibsshalom.com
Shalom Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 286 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Connecticut — 71,420 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 Shalom 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 46.1%
- Food Insecurity: 43.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.1%
- Poverty Rate: 32.8% (21.1–44.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 26.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.3%
- Unemployment: 19.8% (7.9–31.8%)
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Waterbury city is served by 53 churches — about one congregation for every 2,160 residents.
Churches near Shalom Baptist Church
- Christ Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Waterbury Ct. Church of God of Prophecy — 0.3 mi away
- Miracle Center — 0.3 mi away
- New Bethel Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Redeeming Love Tabernacle of Praise — 0.3 mi away
- Refuge Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Basilica of the Immaculate Conception — 0.4 mi away
- Our Lady of Lourdes Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Waterbury Baptist Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 2.9 mi away
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