Gospel Temple Baptist Church
Gospel Temple Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 460 Franklin St SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA in Grand Rapids, MI 49503. It is one of 420 churches in Grand Rapids, and one of 26 Baptist congregations in the city.
460 Franklin St SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503Phone: (616) 245-2619 · Website: https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2015/03/pastor_remembered_after_nearly.html
Gospel Temple 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 — 71,420 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 Gospel Temple Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 84.3%
- Food Insecurity: 41.6%
- Poverty Rate: 35.6% (26.0–45.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.3%
- Obesity: 44.0%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
- Depression: 28.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (7.1–20.4%)
- Unemployment: 7.7% (1.6–13.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Grand Rapids city is served by 313 churches — about one congregation for every 628 residents.
Churches near Gospel Temple Baptist Church
- Family of Christ Church — 0.1 mi away
- Templo Bethel — 0.1 mi away
- Manantial De Vida Internacional — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostés Maranatha — 0.2 mi away
- Mt Moriah Baptist Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Hillcrest Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Unison Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Colossian Forum — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Wyoming Spanish SDA — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New St Mark Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Moses Chapel Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away