Fourteenth Avenue Baptist Church

Fourteenth Avenue Baptist Church is a church at 2501 Buchanan St in Nashville, TN 37208-1938. It is one of 424 churches in Nashville.

2501 Buchanan St, Nashville, TN, 37208-1938

Phone: (615) 972-4214 · Website: http://www.fourteenthavembc.com

Fourteenth 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 — 71,419 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 Fourteenth Avenue 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 describe their own health as fair or poor, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
  • Obesity: 41.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 26.5% (12.4–40.6%)
  • Diabetes: 17.5%
  • Unemployment: 11.1% (1.9–20.3%)
  • Depression: 26.8%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.7% (7.4–22.0%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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