Black's Memorial Missionary Baptist Church
Black's Memorial Missionary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 7216 Bennett Ave in Austin, TX 78752-2701. It is one of 752 churches in Austin, and one of 12 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
7216 Bennett Ave, Austin, TX, 78752-2701Phone: +15124521006 · Website: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/austin-tx/clarence-priestley-jr-11531771
Black's Memorial Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,496 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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 Black's Memorial Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 working-age adults live without health insurance. About 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 31.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.5% (12.0–31.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Poverty Rate: 26.5% (12.3–40.7%)
- Obesity: 39.3%
- Depression: 23.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Black's Memorial Missionary Baptist Church
- St John College Heights Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Saint Johns Church of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Red Rocks Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Austin Stone Community Church - St John's Congregation — 0.4 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Austin Stone Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Good Shepherd Anglican Church TGSACA — 0.5 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Light House Myanmar Mission Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Vida Nueva of Austin — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St John College Heights Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Austin Stone Community Church - St John's Congregation — 0.4 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St John Regular Baptist Association — 0.6 mi away
- Neighborhood Baptist Church — 1 mi away