New Zion Missionary Baptist Church
New Zion Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1252 South Wolcott Avenue in Chicago, IL 60608. It is one of 3,017 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
1252 South Wolcott Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60608Website: http://www.newzionmbc.com/
New Zion Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around New Zion Missionary 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 half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Child Poverty: 60.0%
- Poverty Rate: 36.1% (25.3–46.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 32.9%
- Social Isolation: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.5%
- Unemployment: 11.1% (1.3–21.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near New Zion Missionary Baptist Church
- First Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church West — 0.4 mi away
- Greater St Stephenson M.B.C — 0.4 mi away
- New Garden Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Cross Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Oasis Church Chicago — 0.5 mi away
- Chicago Evangelical Free Church — 0.6 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- No Limit Christian Center — 0.6 mi away
- Near West Vineyard Church — 0.6 mi away