Watervliet Baptist Church
Watervliet Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Watervliet, MI 49098. It is one of 12 churches in Watervliet, and one of 2 Baptist congregations in the city.
Watervliet, MI, 49098Shares a ministry location with New Day Church.
Watervliet 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.
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The community around Watervliet 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 children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 43.7% (27.8–59.6%)
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Social Isolation: 32.3%
- Depression: 28.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Poverty Rate: 25.2% (16.6–33.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.9%
- Diabetes: 16.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Watervliet city is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 819 residents.
Churches near Watervliet Baptist Church
- New Day Church — 0 mi away
- Plymouth Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.3 mi away
- Word of Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Watervliet First Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Free Church — 0.5 mi away in Paw Paw Lake, MI
- Midway Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Apostolic Church — 0.7 mi away
- River of Life Church — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Midway Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Coloma, MI
- Hartford General Baptist — 5.4 mi away in Hartford, MI
- Hartford United Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away in Hartford, MI
- General Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away in Benton Harbor, MI
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