Golden Light Baptist Church
Golden Light 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, 49022Golden Light 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 Golden Light Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than half 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.
- Food Insecurity: 62.5%
- Child Poverty: 60.7%
- Obesity: 58.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 47.8%
- Poverty Rate: 45.9% (32.9–58.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 44.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 41.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 33.8%
- Diabetes: 26.2%
- Depression: 27.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.0%
- Unemployment: 11.8% (3.9–19.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Benton Harbor city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 371 residents.
Churches near Golden Light Baptist Church
- Beautiful Gate Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Church — 0.1 mi away
- Full Gospel Tabernacle Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Jude Spiritual Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pentecostal Peace Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Purpose Church Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Watts Memorial Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Benton Heights, MI
- Holy Temple Church of God — 0.4 mi away in Benton Heights, MI
More Baptist churches nearby
- Beautiful Gate Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Benton Heights, MI
- Saint Thomas Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Benton Heights, MI
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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