Mount Zion Baptist Church
Mount Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church in La Junta, CO 81050. It is one of 29 churches in La Junta, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
La Junta, CO, 81050Mount Zion Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 494 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Colorado — 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.
Find Mount Zion Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Mount Zion Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.1%
- Child Poverty: 39.7% (21.3–58.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Poverty Rate: 26.0% (16.8–35.2%)
- Depression: 23.1%
- Diabetes: 14.3%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (2.2–12.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
La Junta city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 233 residents.
Churches near Mount Zion Baptist Church
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Carson Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- La Junta Baptist Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
- The United Methodist Church of La Junta — 0.4 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Church La Junta — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Carson Avenue Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- La Junta Baptist Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 10.2 mi away in Rocky Ford, CO