Good Shepherd Baptist Church
Good Shepherd Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Akron, OH 44320. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 53 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1930 · Part of Baptist General Convention
Akron, OH, 44320Phone: (804) 863-2665 · Website: http://www.goodshepherdbaptist.org/
Good Shepherd 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 Good Shepherd 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 54.7%
- Food Insecurity: 44.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.2%
- Poverty Rate: 33.8% (20.1–47.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 32.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 27.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Unemployment: 11.4% (5.0–18.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
- Depression: 24.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Good Shepherd Baptist Church
- Bethel Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Haven Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Akron Apostolic Temple — 0.2 mi away
- St Luke Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Prince of Peace Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Akron Alliance Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Stone's Deliverance Temple — 0.5 mi away
- Church in Akron — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Haven Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Prince of Peace Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Thomas Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away