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Find SBC Ethnic Churches Near Me Dashboard

“Find Ethnic Churches Near You” functions as contact books to connect Southern Baptists to each other cross culturally and cooperate to achieve more for the kingdom of God. We learn from research that interpersonal contact across social, cultural, and linguistic groups can promote mutual understanding, acceptance, and collaboration seeing others as equal status and sharing common goals. It creates the conditions for the flourished life in which cooperation is preferred over competition and clear norms and guidelines exist to help group members interact with respect and trust. As the SBC ecosystem becomes increasingly diverse, “Find Ethnic Churches Near You” serves as an online database for making contacts, leading to greater acceptance and participation of all ethnic and racial groups in SBC life. It opens new vistas for the Great Commission mandate to make disciples of all nations through innovative partnerships in your community and around the world. It points to the eternal vision of the kingdom of God where individuals from every tribe, language, people, and nations gathering and worshipping Jesus.

How to Use this Map

Search for Locations and Congregations

Map search helps you find SBC congregations in a city, county, or zip code. Hover the cursor over the map, click the search icon and a search box will appear. When you begin to type in the search box, map search suggests possible locations. Select a location from the list of suggestions to pan and zoom to that location on the map.

Zoom and Pan Views, and Select Congregations

In the upper-left corner of a view, the view toolbar lets you zoom in and out, pan the view, and select congregations.

Zoom in and out

On the view toolbar, click the Zoom In button to zoom in and the Zoom Out button to zoom out. Alternatively, you can also double-click the view to zoom in; to zoom out, hold down Shift, and then double-click the view.

Zoom to a specific area

To zoom in to a specific area of the view, click the Zoom Area tool button on the view toolbar, and then drag in the view. Alternatively, you can also hold down Ctrl + Shift (Windows) or Command + Shift (macOS) to use the Zoom Area tool.

Reset the view

To reset the view, click the Zoom Home button on the view toolbar.

Pan a view

To pan, select the Pan tool , and then drag across the view. Alternatively, you can also Hold down Shift, and then drag across the view.

Make radial selection

The Radial tool selects marks within a circular area distance. Click the Radial tool button , and then drag across the view. You must zoom in to the map several times before you can measure distance with the Radial tool. The measured distance will not appear if you are zoomed too far out of the map.

View congregation profile

Click a mark to view the profile. To make updates or ask questions, contact your state convention representative or local associations.

Telling with data the story of SBC diversity and our cooperative effort of sharing the Gospel in every city, town, neighborhood, and community fulfilling the Great Commission.