Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Selma, AL 36701. It is one of 155 churches in Selma, and one of 23 Baptist congregations in the city.
Selma, AL, 36701Morning Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 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 Morning Star Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 48.0%
- Food Insecurity: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.7%
- Diabetes: 22.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.0%
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Poverty Rate: 27.1% (12.4–41.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (0.7–13.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Selma city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 367 residents.
Churches near Morning Star Baptist Church
- Grace Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- West Trinity Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Little Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Elizabeth Convent — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Lords Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ward Chapel AME Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Little Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away