Garden of Gethsemane Baptist Church
Garden of Gethsemane Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Houston, TX 77021. It is one of 3,337 churches in Houston, and one of 724 Baptist congregations in the city.
Houston, TX, 77021Website: https://gethsemane-mbc.org/
Garden of Gethsemane Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 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 Garden of Gethsemane Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Unemployment: 13.4% (2.0–25.1%)
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Poverty Rate: 29.2% (16.6–41.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (11.5–26.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.1%
- Diabetes: 16.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Garden of Gethsemane Baptist Church
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- Joy Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Community of Faith Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Temple COGIC — 0.4 mi away
- South Park Church of God - Anderson — 0.5 mi away
- Southwind Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Restoration Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Nazarene Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Southside Fellowship Church — 0.6 mi away
- Houston Deliverance — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Community of Faith Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
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- Nazarene Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Carmel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away