Evangel Baptist Church
Evangel Baptist Church is a church at 1114 College Ave in Houghton, MI 49931. It is one of 22 churches in Houghton.
1114 College Ave, Houghton, MI, 49931Phone: (906) 482-6626 · Website: http://www.evangelbaptist.org
Evangel 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 — 71,419 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 Evangel Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 36.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Depression: 29.8%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (5.4–14.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.2% (12.6–26.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Evangel Baptist Church
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Portage Lake United Church — 0.2 mi away
- Canterbury House — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Ignatius Loyala Church — 0.4 mi away
- His House Christian Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Albert the Great Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Maranatha Free Lutheran Church — 0.7 mi away
- Houghton Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Houghton Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 2.6 mi away in Dollar Bay, MI
- North Star Baptist Church — 5 mi away in South Range, MI
- Calvary Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 9.6 mi away in Calumet, MI