New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist
New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist is a Baptist church at 1429 South 17th Street in Springfield, IL 62703. It is one of 164 churches in Springfield, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
1429 South 17th Street, Springfield, IL, 62703Phone: +1-217-523-0800
New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist 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 New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist
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 2,100 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: 73.9%
- Obesity: 54.9%
- Food Insecurity: 45.4%
- Poverty Rate: 43.3% (31.8–54.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.6%
- Diabetes: 22.3%
- Unemployment: 19.3% (7.4–31.2%)
- Social Isolation: 39.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 1,462 residents.
Churches near New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist
- St Katharine Drexel St — 0.1 mi away
- St. Patrick Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Brown Street Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Paul AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Pentecost Tabernacle Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Prayer wheel C.O.G.I.C — 0.3 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Second Timothy Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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