Good Shepherd Baptist Church
Good Shepherd Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 300 Church St in Shepherd, TX 77371. It is one of 15 churches in Shepherd, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1930 · Part of Baptist General Convention
300 Church St, Shepherd, TX, 77371Phone: +19366286115 · Website: http://www.goodshepherdbaptist.org/
Good Shepherd 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 Good Shepherd Baptist Church
It takes 2.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 working-age adults live without health insurance. 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.3% (14.2–26.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.6%
- Obesity: 39.9%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (3.1–12.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Good Shepherd Baptist Church
- Shepherd Pentecostal Church of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Shepherd Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Bridge of Hope Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shepherd United Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Temple Of Faith — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.7 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Magnolia Grove Church — 2 mi away
- Lake Pool Church — 2.4 mi away
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