Hopewell Baptist Church
Hopewell Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 404 Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in Pontiac, MI 48342. It is one of 154 churches in Pontiac, and one of 27 Baptist congregations in the city.
Hopewell was started on November 2, 1975, under the leadership of Pastor James H. Grandberry.
Part of The National Baptist Convention
404 Cesar E. Chavez Avenue, Pontiac, MI, 48342Phone: (248) 312-9956 · Website: https://www.hopewellofpontiac.com/
Hopewell Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,851 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Michigan — 71,872 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.
Find Hopewell Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
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The community around Hopewell Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 46.1%
- Food Insecurity: 43.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.2%
- Poverty Rate: 30.2% (17.8–42.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.2%
- Unemployment: 15.8% (8.1–23.8%)
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.9%
- Diabetes: 17.0%
- Depression: 23.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (5.5–17.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Pontiac city is served by 134 churches — about one congregation for every 462 residents.
Churches near Hopewell Baptist Church
- Crystal Lake Missionary Baptist District Association — 0.1 mi away
- Daylight Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- First Social Brethren Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Shepherd's Fold Community Church "The Fold" — 0.7 mi away
- United Faith General Baptist — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Pontiac — 0.7 mi away
- Iglesia la Luz del Mundo — 0.7 mi away
- First Corinthian Mssnry Baptist — 0.7 mi away
- Deliverance Church of God in Christ — 0.7 mi away
- St. Damien of Molokai Parish - St Michael Site — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Crystal Lake Missionary Baptist District Association — 0.1 mi away
- United Faith General Baptist — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Pontiac — 0.7 mi away
- First Corinthian Mssnry Baptist — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away