Edgemon Baptist Church
Edgemon Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Shelbyville, TN 37160. It is one of 108 churches in Shelbyville, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
Shelbyville, TN, 37160Edgemon 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.
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The community around Edgemon 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 about a third of the children here are growing up 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: 45.6%
- Child Poverty: 30.4% (13.8–47.1%)
- Depression: 29.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.3% (11.6–23.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 18.2% (9.4–27.1%)
- Diabetes: 14.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Shelbyville city is served by 23 churches — about one congregation for every 300 residents.
Churches near Edgemon Baptist Church
- Whosoever Will Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bird Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Woodfork African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Celebration Revival Church — 0.3 mi away
- St William's Catholic Community — 0.4 mi away
- Church of the Anointed One — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Galilee Primitive Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Experience Community — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Shelbyville First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Shelbyville Mills Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Bethany Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
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