Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newport, AR 72112. It is one of 47 churches in Newport, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Newport, AR, 72112Service times
- Wednesday 10am–2pm · & -
Phone: (773) 536-3467 · Website: http://www.morningstarbcofchicago.org/
Morning Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,140 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Arkansas — 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
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
- Food Insecurity: 27.7%
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Poverty Rate: 23.0% (15.7–30.3%)
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (2.6–16.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
- Depression: 25.7%
- Child Poverty: 25.0% (12.8–37.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Newport city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 419 residents.
Churches near Morning Star Baptist Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seeds of Faith Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- The 5th Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Browns Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Calhoun Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Diaz Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away in Diaz, AR