Mount Gilead Baptist Church
Mount Gilead Baptist Church is a church at 2512 Fir Avenue in Lubbock, TX 79404. It is one of 355 churches in Lubbock.
A place for pre-school to high school students to grow in faith, build friendships, and discover their purpose through fun, community, and Jesus.
Serving since 1902
2512 Fir Avenue, Lubbock, TX, 79404Mount Gilead 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.
Ministries at Mount Gilead Baptist Church
- Children & Youth Ministry
- Young Adult Ministry
- Marriage Support
- Welcoming Ministry
- Transportation Ministry
- Worship Support
- Food Ministry
- Service Assistance
- Health Support
- Compassion Ministry
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The community around Mount Gilead 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. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of working-age adults live without health insurance. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 31.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.7% (13.7–31.7%)
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Poverty Rate: 24.7% (13.3–36.2%)
- Unemployment: 10.7% (2.5–20.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Lubbock city is served by 216 churches — about one congregation for every 1,183 residents.
Churches near Mount Gilead Baptist Church
- Christ Temple Church Of God In Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Vernon United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ Twentieth & Birch — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.6 mi away
- Manhattan Heights Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Church of Christ at Manhattan Heights — 0.7 mi away
- Lyon's Chapel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Victory Gospel Chapel of Lubbock — 0.8 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lyon's Chapel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Faith First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- New Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- St Matthew Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away