Jerusalem Baptist Church
Jerusalem Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Brazoria, TX 77422. It is one of 21 churches in Brazoria, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
At the time of the church’s founding, the community surrounding the church had a large population of African Americans making Jerusalem Baptist Church a center for worship and community organizing activities for many decades.
Brazoria, TX, 77422Service times
- Sunday 11am
Jerusalem Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,376 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,352 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.
Find Jerusalem Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Jerusalem Baptist Church
It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.4% (13.1–23.7%)
- Obesity: 37.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
- Diabetes: 14.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Jerusalem Baptist Church
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Macedonia Church — 1.9 mi away
- Grace Church — 3.4 mi away
- Saint Mark Church — 4.2 mi away in Bay City, TX
- Greater Mount Zion Church — 4.4 mi away
- Soul Saving Ministry Church — 4.5 mi away
- Galilee Church — 4.7 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Church — 5.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Shady Acres — 5.4 mi away
- Victory Church — 7.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Church — 4.4 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Church — 5.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Shady Acres — 5.4 mi away
- Cedar Lane Baptist Church — 7.5 mi away in Bay City, TX