Lydia Missionary Baptist Church
Lydia Missionary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at Hwy, 139 in Shelbyville, TX 75973. It is one of 15 churches in Shelbyville, and one of 2 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
At Lydia Missionary Baptist Church, we are committed to serving God, strengthening families, and loving our community through a variety of meaningful ministries.
Part of American Baptist Association
Hwy, 139, Shelbyville, TX, 75973Phone: +19363682362 · Website: https://www.lydiambc.com/
Lydia Missionary 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.
Ministries at Lydia Missionary Baptist Church
- Food pantry
- Bus Ministry
- Youth Ministry
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The community around Lydia Missionary Baptist Church
It takes 6.6 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 about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 41.8%
- Social Isolation: 34.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.7%
- Poverty Rate: 24.4% (15.0–33.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 22.7%
- Diabetes: 18.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.1%
- Child Poverty: 27.4% (13.3–41.6%)
- Depression: 25.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.6% (8.5–20.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Lydia Missionary Baptist Church
- Lydia Church — 1.2 mi away in Huxley, TX
- Rayborn Church — 1.8 mi away
- Lone Star Church — 3.5 mi away
- Bennett Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 4.3 mi away
- New Harmon Church — 4.4 mi away
- Carrolltown Church — 5.3 mi away
- Triumph Church — 6 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Church — 6.7 mi away
- Cuba Church — 6.9 mi away in Center, TX
- Henrietta Church — 7.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Lydia Church — 1.2 mi away in Huxley, TX
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- Ephesus Church — 9 mi away
- Mount Olivet Baptist Church — 12.3 mi away in Logansport, LA
- Lone Star Baptist Church — 12.4 mi away in Center, TX