Fifth Ward Baptist Church
Fifth Ward Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 900 Franklin Street in Clarksville, TN 37040. It is one of 256 churches in Clarksville, and one of 33 Baptist congregations in the city.
reaching the inner city by the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry of Jesus Christ
Serving since 1870
900 Franklin Street, Clarksville, TN, 37040Service times
- Sunday 9:45am · School
Phone: (931) 647-6805 · Website: http://www.5thwardmbc.org/
Fifth Ward Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,871 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 71,417 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.
Ministries at Fifth Ward Baptist Church
- Feeding on Franklin
- Another Blessing clothing ministry
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The community around Fifth Ward Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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.
- Obesity: 45.1%
- Poverty Rate: 36.5% (25.1–47.9%)
- Depression: 32.3%
- Child Poverty: 31.3% (13.8–48.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.8% (10.1–25.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.6%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Clarksville city is served by 55 churches — about one congregation for every 2,741 residents.
Churches near Fifth Ward Baptist Church
- New Galilean Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- 9th & Main Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Resurrection — 0.2 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Whosoever Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Dawn International Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New WineSkin Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Wineskin Church Cmi — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Mateo 28 — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Grace Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church Hispanic Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- Ministerio en Español First Baptist Clarksville — 0.5 mi away
- Madison Street United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
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