Ephesus Church
Ephesus Church is a Missionary Baptist church in Shelbyville, TX 75973. It is one of 15 churches in Shelbyville, and one of 2 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
Shelbyville, TX, 75973Website: https://www.bizapedia.com/us/ephesus-missionary-baptist-church.html
Ephesus 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 Ephesus Church
It takes 6.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 40.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
- Poverty Rate: 23.0% (13.2–32.9%)
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.2% (8.0–22.3%)
- Depression: 24.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Ephesus Church
- Triumph Church — 1.7 mi away
- Todd Springs Church — 3 mi away in Center, TX
- Triumph Church — 3.1 mi away
- East Liberty Church — 3.8 mi away in Center, TX
- Palestine Church — 4.6 mi away in Center, TX
- New Harmon Church — 4.7 mi away
- Bennett Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 4.8 mi away
- Carls Chapel — 5.4 mi away
- Patroon Baptist Church — 5.5 mi away
- Shelbyville United Methodist Church — 5.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mt. Horeb Baptist Church — 7.4 mi away in Center, TX
- Lone Star Baptist Church — 8.4 mi away in Center, TX
- Lydia Missionary Baptist Church — 9 mi away
- White Rock Baptist Church — 9.5 mi away in San Augustine, TX
- Lydia Church — 9.7 mi away in Huxley, TX