People's Missionary Baptist Church

People's Missionary Baptist Church is a church at 8809;8825 MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland, CA 94605. It is one of 485 churches in Oakland.

8809;8825 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA, 94605

Shares a ministry location with Iglesia Roca Fuerte Inc and Westside Worship Center.

People's Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,843 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 71,417 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 People's Missionary Baptist Church

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 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.

  • Social Isolation: 43.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 40.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 32.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.2%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 28.5% (17.3–39.7%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 20.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.7%
  • Diabetes: 16.5%
  • Obesity: 37.7%
  • Unemployment: 6.7% (2.8–10.5%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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

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