Decatur Heights Baptist Church
Decatur Heights Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 4301 Edmonston Rd in Bladensburg, MD 20710. It is one of 18 churches in Bladensburg, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is simple but powerful: preach Christ, build community, and serve with compassion.
At Decatur Heights Baptist Church, we believe church isn’t just a place you go—it’s a family you grow with.
4301 Edmonston Rd, Bladensburg, MD, 20710Phone: (301) 927-0708 · Website: http://www.decaturheightsbaptistchurch.org/
Decatur Heights Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 993 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Maryland — 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 Decatur Heights Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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: 45.2%
- Food Insecurity: 33.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.5% (11.5–23.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
- Poverty Rate: 18.1% (9.7–26.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
- Unemployment: 6.3% (1.9–10.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bladensburg town is served by 3 churches — about one congregation for every 3,529 residents.
Churches near Decatur Heights Baptist Church
- Iglesia Pentecostal Profetica Nueva Vida — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Misionera Apostoles y Profetas — 0.2 mi away in Hyattsville, MD
- Jubilee Christian Church International — 0.2 mi away in Hyattsville, MD
- Word of God Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Model Prayer Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- St. Michael Eritrean Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cheverly Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hyattsville Spanish Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away in Hyattsville, MD
- Kingdom Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia roca de los siglos — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Cheverly Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church of North Brentwood — 1 mi away in North Brentwood, MD
- First Baptist Church of Hyattsville — 1.2 mi away in Hyattsville, MD
- Ekklesia International — 1.4 mi away in Brentwood, MD
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