Union Baptist Church
Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Kent, OH 44240. It is one of 37 churches in Kent.
Kent, OH, 44240Union 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 Union 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Poverty Rate: 23.7% (14.3–33.1%)
- Unemployment: 8.3% (3.1–13.7%)
- Depression: 26.7%
- Food Insecurity: 16.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Kent city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 2,093 residents.
Churches near Union Baptist Church
- Free Methodist Church (Historical) — 0.1 mi away
- First Spiritualist Church of Kent — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Water Street Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kent Church of Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Freedom Fellowships — 0.8 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Parkside Kent — 1.9 mi away
- Mission Baptist Temple — 2.7 mi away in Stow, OH
- Victory Baptist Temple — 2.9 mi away
- Community Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away in Tallmadge, OH
- First Freedom Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away