Jordan Baptist Church

Jordan Baptist Church is a church at 703 Newport Street in Detroit, MI 48215. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit.

703 Newport Street, Detroit, MI, 48215

Website: http://www.myjordanmbc.org/

Jordan Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,819 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Michigan — 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 Jordan Baptist Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand 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: 45.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 38.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 32.1% (20.1–44.3%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 28.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.1%
  • Diabetes: 20.6%
  • Social Isolation: 35.5%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
  • Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
  • Unemployment: 6.6% (1.9–11.5%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.

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