Maple Street Baptist Church
Maple Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Des Moines, IA 50316. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 30 Baptist congregations in the city.
Des Moines, IA, 50316Website: http://maplestreetmbc.org
Maple Street Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 601 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 71,874 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 Maple Street Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 29.8%
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
- Child Poverty: 28.7% (12.2–46.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.0% (12.4–29.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.9% (7.9–19.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Des Moines city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 950 residents.
Churches near Maple Street Baptist Church
- Christ Apostolic Temple — 0.2 mi away
- University Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jesus Christ Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Philadelphia Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Peter Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Asian Church of the Open Bible — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Union Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Grace Fellowship Church — 1.2 mi away