Greater Faith Missionary Baptist
Greater Faith Missionary Baptist is a Baptist church at 825 East Buchtel Avenue in Akron, OH 44305. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 63 Baptist congregations in the city.
825 East Buchtel Avenue, Akron, OH, 44305Website: http://greaterfaithakron.org/
Shares a ministry location with Equip Church International - Akron.
Greater Faith Missionary Baptist is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,342 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 71,417 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 Greater Faith Missionary Baptist
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. 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: 46.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Poverty Rate: 37.9% (22.1–53.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 34.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
- Child Poverty: 34.3% (14.5–54.2%)
- Depression: 29.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.4%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (2.1–16.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (4.9–20.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Greater Faith Missionary Baptist
- Equip Church International - Akron — 0 mi away
- Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Family of Faith United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Emmanuel Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Master — 0.2 mi away
- Open Door Assembly of God — 0.2 mi away
- McNaughton Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Church of the Deaf — 0.2 mi away
- Citizens Akron — 0.3 mi away
- East Market Street Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- McNaughton Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Greater Bethel Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Brown Street Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away