Guiding Light Refuge Baptist Church
Guiding Light Refuge Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Washington, DC 20019. It is one of 862 churches in Washington, and one of 214 Baptist congregations in the city.
Washington, DC, 20019Shares a ministry location with Episcopal Church of the Atonement.
Guiding Light Refuge Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 231 congregations of the Baptist family gather across District of Columbia — 71,417 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 Guiding Light Refuge 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 adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,500 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.
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Food Insecurity: 30.9%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (4.1–20.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.5%
- Poverty Rate: 20.8% (11.1–30.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.9%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Washington city is served by 535 churches — about one congregation for every 1,253 residents.
Churches near Guiding Light Refuge Baptist Church
- Episcopal Church of the Atonement — 0 mi away
- Capital View Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Community Church of Washington DC — 0.1 mi away
- Divine Mission Church — 0.1 mi away
- Clinton Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ of the East Capitol — 0.1 mi away
- Hughes Memorial Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Amazing Gospel Souls Inc — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Lucille African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.2 mi away
- Apostolic Faith — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Capital View Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Community Church of Washington DC — 0.1 mi away
- Metrotone Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Marshall Heights — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church of Marshall Heights — 0.4 mi away
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