Progressive Baptist Church
Progressive Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Memphis, TN 38126. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 427 Baptist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38126Progressive 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 Progressive Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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.
- Poverty Rate: 35.9% (21.7–50.2%)
- Obesity: 42.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.2%
- Depression: 25.0%
- Diabetes: 14.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Progressive Baptist Church
- Downtown Church Memphis — 0 mi away
- Saint Patricks Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pentecostal Temple COGIC — 0.2 mi away
- AME Department Church Growth and Development — 0.2 mi away
- Temple of Deliverance Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church Beale Street — 0.2 mi away
- Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Bountiful Blessings Ministries, Inc. — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church Beale Street — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- River of Life MB Church — 0.4 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Galatian Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away