Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church
Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Galveston, TX 77550. It is one of 125 churches in Galveston, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Galveston, TX, 77550Gethsemane 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 Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 working-age adults live without health insurance. 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 All Ages (Census): 20.8% (12.7–28.9%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.5%
- Diabetes: 16.9%
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Poverty Rate: 21.4% (10.2–32.6%)
- Unemployment: 7.2% (1.0–13.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Galveston city is served by 88 churches — about one congregation for every 602 residents.
Churches near Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church
- Bethesda House — 0.3 mi away
- Salon del Reino Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Assembly Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Gilead Church — 0.4 mi away
- Living God Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Luke Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Torre Fuerte — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Rey de Gloria — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Live Oak Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Moriah Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 1 mi away