Greater Galilee Baptist Church
Greater Galilee Baptist Church is a church at 1428 SW Jefferson Ave in Lawton, OK 73501-7257. It is one of 210 churches in Lawton.
1428 SW Jefferson Ave, Lawton, OK, 73501-7257Phone: +15803534676 · Website: https://ggbclawton.com/
Greater Galilee Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,607 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Oklahoma — 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 Greater Galilee Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of adults live with obesity, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 88.1%
- Obesity: 57.2%
- Poverty Rate: 55.7%
- Food Insecurity: 50.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.5%
- Diabetes: 26.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.0%
- Unemployment: 23.5% (14.4–32.5%)
- Social Isolation: 34.9%
- Depression: 28.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.6% (7.8–21.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Galilee Baptist Church
- New Hope Church of God-Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Calvery Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Elmo Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Church - Lawton — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.2 mi away
- Living Word Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- St John's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Elmo Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Calvery Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Elmo Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St John's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away