General Baptist Church

General Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Benton Harbor, MI 49022. It is one of 72 churches in Benton Harbor, and one of 16 Baptist congregations in the city.

Benton Harbor, MI, 49022

General Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,851 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Michigan — 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 General Baptist Church

In the few miles around this church, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

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  • Food Insecurity: 25.1%
  • Obesity: 44.0%
  • Social Isolation: 33.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 27.3% (16.7–37.8%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
  • Diabetes: 16.1%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
  • Depression: 26.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 18.4%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Benton charter township is served by 40 churches — about one congregation for every 313 residents.

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