Third Baptist Church

Third Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 582 East Ferry Avenue in Detroit, MI 48202. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit, and one of 266 Baptist congregations in the city.

582 East Ferry Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48202

Third 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 Third Baptist 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 a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 33.7%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
  • Food Insecurity: 19.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.5% (8.0–26.9%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.7%

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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