Olivet Baptist Church
Olivet Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Houston, TX 77020. It is one of 3,338 churches in Houston, and one of 641 Baptist congregations in the city.
Houston, TX, 77020Website: http://olivetmbc.com/
Olivet 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 Olivet Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 88.6%
- Obesity: 47.9%
- Poverty Rate: 40.1% (28.2–52.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.0% (17.5–32.6%)
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Unemployment: 15.1% (6.4–23.9%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Olivet Baptist Church
- Lyons Unity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- True Vine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Island of Hope Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Vernon United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Pleasant Green Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Remnant Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Testament Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lyons Unity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- True Vine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away