Oakland Avenue Missionary Baptist Church
Oakland Avenue Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 309 Harper Avenue in Detroit, MI 48202. It is one of 1,585 churches in Detroit, and one of 234 Baptist congregations in the city.
309 Harper Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48202Phone: +1 313 875 3880 · Website: http://oambc.com/
Oakland Avenue Missionary 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 Oakland Avenue Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 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: 27.6%
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Poverty Rate: 27.7% (17.0–38.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
- Depression: 23.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
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.
Churches near Oakland Avenue Missionary Baptist Church
- Faith Central Church — 0 mi away
- Abundant Faith Cathedral — 0.1 mi away
- Église Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Third Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Cave of Adullam — 0.4 mi away
- St. Philip's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- North End Church of God In Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Second Ebenezer Banquet Hall — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Phillips Temple AOH — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Mt. Carmel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Warren Avenue Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Zion New Covenant Baptist Church - New Covenant Bible Institute & College — 0.9 mi away
- Nazarene Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away