Antioch Baptist Church
Antioch Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Akron, OH 44307. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 53 Baptist congregations in the city.
Akron, OH, 44307Website: http://www.peoplesbaptistchurch.net/
Antioch Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,344 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 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 Antioch 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 half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Obesity: 52.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Food Insecurity: 38.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.1%
- Poverty Rate: 30.5% (15.3–45.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.3%
- Diabetes: 23.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 11.4% (3.5–20.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Depression: 24.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Antioch Baptist Church
- iAAMOG Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Peoples Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Abundant Life Center of Eternal Truth — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Peace Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Apostolic Faith Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Garden of Prayer Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Thomas Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
- Evening Light Church of God — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Peoples Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Peace Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Thomas Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away