Refuge Baptist Church
Refuge Baptist Church is a church in Columbus, OH 43203. It is one of 1,053 churches in Columbus.
Columbus, OH, 43203Refuge Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,342 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Ohio — 71,418 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 Refuge 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 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 73.7%
- Poverty Rate: 60.2%
- Food Insecurity: 52.2%
- Obesity: 50.0%
- Social Isolation: 45.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 34.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 29.2%
- Diabetes: 22.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.1%
- Depression: 28.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Columbus city is served by 545 churches — about one congregation for every 1,492 residents.
Churches near Refuge Baptist Church
- St Dominic's Church — 0.1 mi away
- Destiny Church International — 0.1 mi away
- Meredeth Temple Church Of God In Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mt. Vernon Avenue AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trevitt New Life Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Gospel Tabernacle United Holy Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Mark AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Revival Power Church of Columbus — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Calvary Holy Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Mission United Holy Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Grove Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Vernon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Tremont Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Unity Baptist Church Of Columbus — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Twelfth Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away