St Joseph Missionary Baptist church BlackBottom
St Joseph Missionary Baptist church BlackBottom is a Missionary Baptist church at 485 Reverend Henry T Rhim Blvd. in Jacksonville, FL 32202. It is one of 1,416 churches in Jacksonville, and one of 8 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
Our goal is to bring people together, to grow with each other and to serve others.
When the Lord led Reverend Harrison Edwards to the organization of St. Joseph Missionary Baptist Church in 1930, little did Reverend Edwards realize the eyes of not only Jacksonville, the State of Florida, but the eyes of the nation would focus on the little church in Black Bottom.
485 Reverend Henry T Rhim Blvd., Jacksonville, FL, 32202Service times
- Sunday 9am
Phone: (904) 356-2359 · Website: https://stjosephblackbottom.org/
St Joseph Missionary Baptist church BlackBottom is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,719 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 71,419 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 St Joseph Missionary Baptist church BlackBottom
- Culinary Ministry
- Education Ministry
- Evangelism Ministry
- Grief Counseling Ministry
- Health Awareness Ministry
- Junior Women’s Ministry
- Funeral Ministry
- Discipleship Counseling
- Mid-Week Worship Service
- Transition Ministry
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The community around St Joseph Missionary Baptist church BlackBottom
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 49.3%
- Poverty Rate: 40.4% (28.7–52.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.3%
- Diabetes: 24.7%
- Unemployment: 12.3% (5.4–19.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (6.0–18.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
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- International Bibleway Apostolic Christian Assembly — 0.2 mi away
- United Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Pearl Street Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- God's Ark Of Safety Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Summerville Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
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