Straight Gate International Church
Straight Gate International Church is a church at 10100 Grand River Avenue in Detroit, MI 48204. It is one of 1,585 churches in Detroit.
Straight Gate International Church (SGIC) was founded in 1978 by Bishop Andrew and Pastor Viveca Merritt. SGIC is a non-denominational, full gospel ministry that teaches the bible as the infallible Word of God and that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Serving since 1978
10100 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48204Website: http://www.straightgate.net/
Ministries at Straight Gate International Church
- Food pantry
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The community around Straight Gate International Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 80.7%
- Obesity: 50.8%
- Food Insecurity: 50.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.7%
- Poverty Rate: 39.5% (25.2–53.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 37.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.5%
- Diabetes: 24.2%
- Unemployment: 15.0% (4.0–26.5%)
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Straight Gate International Church
- Order-The Fishermen Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- Home of Love — 0.1 mi away
- St Charles Lwanga Parish — 0.1 mi away
- Messiah Missionary Baptist Church of Detroit — 0.3 mi away
- Obedient Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Mount Tabor Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethlehem-Judah Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Canaan Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Strictly Biblical — 0.4 mi away
- Great Faith Ministries International — 0.4 mi away