Shepherd Baptist Church

Shepherd Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Chattanooga, TN 37421. It is one of 478 churches in Chattanooga, and one of 120 Baptist congregations in the city.

Chattanooga, TN, 37421

Shares a ministry location with Fellowship at The Loop.

Shepherd Baptist Church 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 Shepherd Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.8% (15.3–30.3%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
  • Unemployment: 8.0% (2.1–13.9%)
  • Obesity: 37.8%
  • Depression: 25.8%
  • Poverty Rate: 16.5% (8.7–24.3%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
  • Diabetes: 14.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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

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