Eliam Baptist Church
Eliam Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 6009 Hampton St in Melrose, FL 32666. It is one of 18 churches in Melrose, and one of 4 Baptist congregations in the city.
The church is not a gallery for the better exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones
6009 Hampton St, Melrose, FL, 32666Phone: (352) 475-2820 · Website: http://eliambaptistchurch.com/
Eliam Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,713 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Florida — 71,872 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 Eliam Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 2 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 25.0% (11.5–38.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
- Poverty Rate: 18.5% (9.9–27.2%)
- Diabetes: 14.6%
- Unemployment: 6.5% (2.3–10.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Eliam Baptist Church
- Melrose United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Melrose Church of God of the Mountain Assembly — 0.6 mi away
- Little Melrose Church of Old Regular Baptist Faith and Order — 0.8 mi away
- Believers Worship Center Church of God — 1 mi away
- CrossPoint Church — 1 mi away
- Church of Christ Melrose — 1.2 mi away
- St. John Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Lake Area Bible Church — 3 mi away
- Faith Presbyterian Church — 3.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Little Melrose Church of Old Regular Baptist Faith and Order — 0.8 mi away
- St. John Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Keystone Heights, FL
- Damascus Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Hawthorne, FL
- First Baptist Church of Keystone Heights — 5.1 mi away in Keystone Heights, FL