Southern Heights Baptist Church
Southern Heights Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 4001 S Anthony Blvd in Fort Wayne, IN 46806-1938. It is one of 361 churches in Fort Wayne, and one of 19 Baptist congregations in the city.
4001 S Anthony Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN, 46806-1938Phone: (260) 744-9307 · Website: https://www.shbcfortwayne.org/
Southern Heights Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,270 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Indiana — 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.
Ministries at Southern Heights Baptist Church
- Mens' Fellowship
- Ladies' Fellowship
- Bible Study
- Youth Ministry
- Outreach and Missions
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The community around Southern Heights Baptist Church
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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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: 50.0%
- Child Poverty: 41.6% (25.0–58.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 40.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.6%
- Poverty Rate: 25.9% (16.6–35.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.9% (9.3–30.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (4.2–17.9%)
- Depression: 24.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Southern Heights Baptist Church
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Church of Faith — 0.2 mi away
- The Church In Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Abiding Faith Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Amistad Cristiana Center — 0.5 mi away
- Kingdom First — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Christ Temple Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Sarced Heart — 0.7 mi away
- Holy Redeemer Old Catholic Community — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Canaan Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Good Hope Baptist Church/Fort Wayne,IN — 1.1 mi away
- Providence Baptist — 1.1 mi away
- St John Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Greater Progressive Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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