Mt. Zion Prayer Tower Mission

The community around Mt. Zion Prayer Tower Mission

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,300 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.

• Social Isolation: 44.7%
• Food Insecurity: 38.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.6%
• Housing Insecurity: 30.9%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.0%
• Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
• Poverty Rate: 17.1% (9.7–24.5%)
• Diabetes: 13.7%
• Unemployment: 6.2% (2.7–9.8%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Oakland city is served by 272 churches — about one congregation for every 1,609 residents.

Churches near Mt. Zion Prayer Tower Mission

• Last Days Deliverance Ministries — 0.1 mi away
• Elmhurst Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
• True Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
• Elmhurst Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
• Iglesia Cristiana Maranatha — 0.2 mi away
• Universal Assembly — 0.2 mi away
• Greater Mt Carmel Baptist — 0.2 mi away
• United Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
• Christian Tabernacle Church — 0.2 mi away
• Saint Louis Bertrand Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away