The Greater Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church
The Greater Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church is a church at 2969 South Fort Street in Detroit, MI 48217. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit.
2969 South Fort Street, Detroit, MI, 48217The Greater Bethlehem Missionary 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 The Greater Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have, and about 1 in 5 households fear the power or water being shut off. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 32.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.8%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 36.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.5%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (2.0–13.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near The Greater Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church
- Southwestern Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Adventista Del 7mo Dia Shalom — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Tabernacle Church Of God In Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Pentecostal Way of Faith — 0.1 mi away
- Universal Starlight Temple of Prayer — 0.2 mi away
- Triumph Church - South Campus — 0.3 mi away
- Waterfall Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Heaven Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Mount Hermon MBC — 0.4 mi away
- St Andrew & Benedict Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Waterfall Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Heaven Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Mount Hermon MBC — 0.4 mi away
- Pine Grove Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Union Second Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in River Rouge, MI