Oakwood Baptist Community Center

Oakwood Baptist Community Center is a Baptist church in Chattanooga, TN 37416. It is one of 478 churches in Chattanooga, and one of 120 Baptist congregations in the city.

Chattanooga, TN, 37416

Oakwood Baptist Community Center is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,872 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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 Oakwood Baptist Community Center

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 40.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.8%
  • Diabetes: 17.6%
  • Unemployment: 8.6% (0.4–17.1%)
  • Child Poverty: 25.8% (7.5–44.1%)
  • Depression: 23.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.2% (6.3–18.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Chattanooga city is served by 236 churches — about one congregation for every 791 residents.

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