Greater Hope Baptist Church
Greater Hope Baptist Church is a church at 8 Verplanck St in Buffalo, NY 14208-1741. It is one of 379 churches in Buffalo.
8 Verplanck St, Buffalo, NY, 14208-1741Phone: +17168833328 · Website: http://greaterhopebuffalo.org/
Greater Hope Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,495 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New York — 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 Greater Hope Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Greater Hope Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 2,200 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: 32.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.4%
- Diabetes: 18.7%
- Obesity: 43.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.0% (11.9–38.0%)
- Unemployment: 9.2% (1.4–17.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Hope Baptist Church
- Word Of Faith Church Inc — 0.1 mi away
- State Tabernacle Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Faithful Stones Church — 0.1 mi away
- PHLOW Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bright Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Group Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Coldspring Church of God in Christ Jesus — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Church Of God By Faith — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- State Tabernacle Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Faithful Stones Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away