Zion Baptist Church
Zion Baptist Church is a church at 1601 E Laurel St in Springfield, IL 62703-3247. It is one of 164 churches in Springfield.
1601 E Laurel St, Springfield, IL, 62703-3247Phone: +12175286113 · Website: https://gettozion.org/
Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 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 Zion Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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: 79.9%
- Obesity: 54.5%
- Poverty Rate: 45.9%
- Food Insecurity: 45.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.4%
- Diabetes: 21.5%
- Unemployment: 20.9% (8.1–33.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.6%
- Depression: 23.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Zion Baptist Church
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- House of Prayer For All People — 0.2 mi away
- St Katharine Drexel St — 0.2 mi away
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Progressive Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Brown Street Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Pentecost Tabernacle Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Second Timothy Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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