Greater Oak Grove Baptist Church
Greater Oak Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Houston, TX 77016. It is one of 3,338 churches in Houston, and one of 641 Baptist congregations in the city.
Houston, TX, 77016Greater Oak Grove 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.
Find Greater Oak Grove Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Greater Oak Grove 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 49.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 36.5% (26.0–47.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 33.5% (21.7–45.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 31.0%
- Diabetes: 23.1%
- Unemployment: 14.7% (6.1–23.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Oak Grove Baptist Church
- City of Refuge Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Grady Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Saviour Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Rose of Sharon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Community Baptist Church of Houston — 0.5 mi away
- The Household of Faith Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Love Fellowship Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Heaven Bound Christian Worship Center — 0.5 mi away
- Abundance of Blessings Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Voices of Jericho — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Saint Saviour Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Rose of Sharon Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Community Baptist Church of Houston — 0.5 mi away
- Shady Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Mount Haven Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away