Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1225 East 20th Street in Erie, PA 16503. It is one of 205 churches in Erie, and one of 25 Baptist congregations in the city.
1225 East 20th Street, Erie, PA, 16503Morning Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Morning Star Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 nearly 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: 55.3% (37.3–73.2%)
- Obesity: 45.6%
- Poverty Rate: 39.2% (27.2–51.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.6%
- Unemployment: 15.9% (4.1–27.8%)
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Depression: 24.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Erie city is served by 103 churches — about one congregation for every 920 residents.
Churches near Morning Star Baptist Church
- First Born Apostolic Church — 0 mi away
- San Juan United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Henderson United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Stephens Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Gods Grace Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Victory Christian Center of Erie, PA — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Rosary Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Zion Apostolic Faith Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church — 0.6 mi away