Early Grove Baptist Church
Early Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 557 Lester Street in Memphis, TN 38112. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 382 Baptist congregations in the city.
We the members of Early Grove Baptist Church are called to be the people of God, working together to proclaim the gospel (good news) of Jesus Christ through biblical evangelism, biblical education, a strong biblical witness and biblical ministries for the unsaved and the saved.
Early Grove Baptist Church is more than a building—it’s a place you can call home.
557 Lester Street, Memphis, TN, 38112Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (901) 249-8157 · Website: http://www.earlygrove.org/
Early Grove Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 3,860 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Tennessee — 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.
Find Early Grove Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Early Grove 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 46.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.6%
- Poverty Rate: 32.9% (20.6–45.3%)
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 15.2% (3.8–26.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.0% (11.6–24.4%)
- Depression: 26.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Early Grove Baptist Church
- First Baptist Church - Broad — 0.1 mi away
- Rock of Calvary;New Tyler African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rock of Ages Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Carpenter Street Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Temple C.O.G.I.C. (Memphis) — 0.2 mi away
- Princeton Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Temple Church of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Second Bethany Holiness Ministry Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethany Temple Church of God in Christ Holiness — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church - Broad — 0.1 mi away
- Princeton Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Old Salem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away