Rising Star Baptist Church
Rising Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3209 Martin Luther King Junior Way in Oakland, CA 94609. It is one of 485 churches in Oakland, and one of 68 Baptist congregations in the city.
3209 Martin Luther King Junior Way, Oakland, CA, 94609Rising Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,885 congregations of the Baptist family gather across California — 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 Rising Star Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 nearly a quarter 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: 40.6%
- Food Insecurity: 25.7%
- Poverty Rate: 28.9% (21.0–36.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (2.9–12.7%)
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.
Churches near Rising Star Baptist Church
- Abyssinian Missionary Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Mariah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- West Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Marks Greater Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Augustine's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Gospel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Parks Chapel AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Church of Christ Scientist — 0.3 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Abyssinian Missionary Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Mariah Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- West Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Marks Greater Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Gospel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
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