True Light Baptist Church
True Light Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 900 Thomas St SE in Grand Rapids, MI 49506. It is one of 418 churches in Grand Rapids, and one of 26 Baptist congregations in the city.
We are a family of believers Sharing Christ, Showing Compassion and Serving the Community with the power of the Holy Spirit.
Serving since 1922
900 Thomas St SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49506Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · campus for in person worship
Phone: (616) 247-8072 · Website: https://truelightgr.org/
True Light 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 — 71,418 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.
Ministries at True Light Baptist Church
- Bridge Building Ministry
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Latest from True Light GR's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship 9.13.26 (all videos).
The community around True Light 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Obesity: 46.3%
- Child Poverty: 41.5% (26.2–56.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 38.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.6%
- Social Isolation: 39.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
- Poverty Rate: 29.0% (20.0–38.1%)
- Depression: 28.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.8%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Unemployment: 9.5% (4.5–14.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Grand Rapids city is served by 313 churches — about one congregation for every 628 residents.
Churches near True Light Baptist Church
- Queens of Afrika of the African People of Love — 0.1 mi away
- Eastern Avenue Church Of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Breakthrough Believers — 0.2 mi away
- Good Shepherd Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sherman Street Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Urban Family Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Eastern Ave Christian — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Reformed Church – Grand Rapids — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Messiah Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away