Alpha Joy Temple
Alpha Joy Temple is a Church Of God In Christ church at 407 Laverne Avenue in San Antonio, TX 78237. It is one of 1,662 churches in San Antonio, and one of 6 Church Of God In Christ congregations in the city.
My vision is to win souls for Christ, to add souls to the ministry; and to take Greater Joy to the next level; and to employ greater and more exciting events with all people of God!
407 Laverne Avenue, San Antonio, TX, 78237Service times
- Sunday 10am · School
Phone: (210) 290-5343 · Website: https://www.greaterjoychurch.com/
Alpha Joy Temple is part of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,704 congregations of the Pentecostal (Trinitarian) family gather across Texas — 16,682 across the United States on The Church Map.
Pentecostalism began in a Los Angeles livery stable with Black and white believers worshiping together while segregation was the law, and it has become the fastest-growing Christian movement in history. Its recovery of the Spirit's gifts, and the songs it has written, have crossed into nearly every other tradition on this map.
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Latest from Greater Joy Temple COGIC's YouTube channel: Sunday Morning Service 09-13-26 (all videos).
The community around Alpha Joy Temple
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. More than a third of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 39.2%
- Poverty Rate: 31.2% (19.5–42.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 26.9% (19.7–34.0%)
- Diabetes: 23.1%
- Obesity: 41.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
San Antonio city is served by 829 churches — about one congregation for every 1,707 residents.
Churches near Alpha Joy Temple
- Church of the Living God Temple 2 — 0.1 mi away
- Sherman Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- West Ridge Park First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Abundant Life Christian Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Providence Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- West Mount Calvary Church — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Cinco Palms — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Gabriel Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
More Pentecostal churches nearby
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- Corona de Vida Assembly of God — 1 mi away
- Getsmani Assembly of God Church — 1.1 mi away
- Iglesia Movimiento Evangelictico Pentecostal Church — 1.5 mi away
- Pentecostal Holiness Church — 1.7 mi away