Merton Avenue Baptist Church
Merton Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38112. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 427 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38112Merton Avenue 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 Merton Avenue 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. About 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Unemployment: 9.9% (1.4–18.5%)
- Obesity: 37.5%
- Depression: 25.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Merton Avenue Baptist Church
- Blessed Sacrament Church — 0.1 mi away
- Catholic Cursillo Center of Memphis — 0.1 mi away
- Merton Street Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Everett Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Memphis Metro CHURCH — 0.2 mi away
- Transforming Lives Church — 0.2 mi away
- Living Word Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Christian Church - Memphis, TN — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Crosslink International — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Lewis Street Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Princeton Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church - Broad — 0.6 mi away
- Early Grove Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away