South Hempstead Baptist Church
South Hempstead Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 81 Maple Avenue in Hempstead, NY 11550. It is one of 108 churches in Hempstead, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
81 Maple Avenue, Hempstead, NY, 11550Phone: +1 516-481-7090
South Hempstead 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.
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The community around South Hempstead 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. 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 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: 34.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.6%
- Obesity: 40.6%
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Child Poverty: 31.7% (17.2–46.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (6.5–15.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.7% (10.9–28.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (5.0–18.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Hempstead village is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 1,219 residents.
Churches near South Hempstead Baptist Church
- Church of Spiritual Truth — 0.1 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- All Saints Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia Apostoles Y Profetas — 0.2 mi away
- Corner Stone Deliverance Church — 0.2 mi away
- Progressive Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- La Iglesia De Dios Monte Sion — 0.2 mi away
- New Generation Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Generation Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Judea United Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Hempstead — 0.9 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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