Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church
Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Houston, TX 77029. It is one of 3,337 churches in Houston, and one of 724 Baptist congregations in the city.
Houston, TX, 77029Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 7,377 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Texas — 71,417 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 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 more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,100 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: 47.5%
- Child Poverty: 40.3% (21.4–59.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 30.8%
- Poverty Rate: 30.6% (18.9–42.3%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.9% (15.4–34.4%)
- Diabetes: 22.1%
- Unemployment: 15.7% (6.4–25.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Pleasantville United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Fidelity Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Clinton Park Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Bible Missionary Church — 1.2 mi away
- Greater Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away
- Capilla La Divina Providencia — 1.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Fidelity Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Greater Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away