Saint Thomas Baptist Church
Saint Thomas Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Benton Heights, MI 49022. It is one of 17 churches in Benton Heights, and one of 8 Baptist congregations in the city.
Benton Heights, MI, 49022Saint Thomas 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 Saint Thomas Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of 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 2,100 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: 61.9%
- Child Poverty: 60.7%
- Obesity: 58.3%
- Poverty Rate: 48.4% (35.4–61.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 47.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 41.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 41.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 33.8%
- Diabetes: 25.8%
- Unemployment: 15.3% (3.3–27.3%)
- Depression: 27.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Benton Heights is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 278 residents.
Churches near Saint Thomas Baptist Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0 mi away
- Community Church of God — 0.2 mi away in Benton Harbor, MI
- Greater Community Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away in Benton Harbor, MI
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Benton Harbor, MI
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Benton Harbor, MI
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Temple Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Colored Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away in Benton Harbor, MI
- Golden Light Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Benton Harbor, MI
- Pleasant Grove Church — 0.4 mi away in Benton Harbor, MI
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Benton Harbor, MI
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Benton Harbor, MI
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Golden Light Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Benton Harbor, MI
- Beautiful Gate Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Benton Harbor, MI
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