Bethesda Baptist Church
Bethesda Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2909 North 20th Street in Milwaukee, WI 53206-1628. It is one of 659 churches in Milwaukee, and one of 57 Baptist congregations in the city.
2909 North 20th Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53206-1628Phone: (414) 442-1324 · Website: https://bethesdabaptistchurchbbc.weebly.com/
Bethesda Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 421 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Wisconsin — 71,419 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 Bethesda Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 55.4% (36.6–75.0%)
- Obesity: 55.2%
- Food Insecurity: 53.2%
- Social Isolation: 42.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.8%
- Poverty Rate: 40.2% (25.3–55.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.6%
- Diabetes: 23.5%
- Unemployment: 10.2% (1.7–19.2%)
- Depression: 23.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Milwaukee city is served by 302 churches — about one congregation for every 1,887 residents.
Churches near Bethesda Baptist Church
- Reformation Church of Holiness, Inc. — 0.1 mi away
- Hephatha Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emmaus Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jesus Is the Way Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Allen Ebenezer Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Liberty Church of God Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Greater New Birth Church — 0.3 mi away
- Solomon's Temple Evangelistic Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- First Bible Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Bible Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Way of the Cross Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Victory Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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