Beacon Light Missionary Baptist Church
Beacon Light Missionary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 403 Cook Rd in Durham, NC 27713-1158. It is one of 446 churches in Durham, and one of 10 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to promote a Biblical community where outreach is essential and members are empowered to become mature Christians.
We are welcoming and worship in a casual environment. Our worship services involve praying, worship through music that includes songs of praise and thanksgiving to God, and a message from one of our ministers.
403 Cook Rd, Durham, NC, 27713-1158Service times
- Sunday 9am · School
Phone: +19196882206 · Website: https://www.beaconlightchurch.org/
Beacon Light Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,587 congregations of the Baptist family gather across North Carolina — 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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Upcoming events at Beacon Light Missionary Baptist Church
- Thu, Aug 6 · 7:30 PM: Beacon Light Choir Rehearsal
- Fri, Aug 7 · 7:30 PM: Prayer Ministry
- Sun, Aug 9 · 10 AM: Worship Service
- Sun, Aug 9 · 10 AM: Sunday School
- Wed, Aug 12 · 12 PM: In Person Bible Study-Cancelled — 403 Cook Rd, Durham, NC 27713, USA
From Beacon Light Missionary Baptist Church's public calendar (https://www.beaconlightchurch.org/). Times are the church's local time.
The community around Beacon Light Missionary 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 a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 28.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.1% (16.3–31.9%)
- Obesity: 43.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
- Child Poverty: 29.0% (11.8–46.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
- Poverty Rate: 20.9% (13.8–28.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Beacon Light Missionary Baptist Church
- Long's Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Zion Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- True Way Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
- Victorious Life Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away
- White Rock Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Impact Church of Durham — 0.5 mi away
- Triumphant Church — 0.6 mi away
- Highway and Hedges Ministry Two — 0.8 mi away
- New Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Faith Assembly Christian Center — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Zion Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- White Rock Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Morning Star Missionary Church — 0.9 mi away
- Bell Yeager Freewill Baptist Church — 1 mi away
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