New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church
New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1600 South I Street in East St. Louis, IL 62207. It is one of 21 churches in East St. Louis, and one of 11 Baptist congregations in the city.
1600 South I Street, East St. Louis, IL, 62207New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 100.0%
- Obesity: 51.6%
- Food Insecurity: 42.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.8%
- Diabetes: 22.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Poverty Rate: 29.4% (13.3–45.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (0.5–14.5%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
East St. Louis city is served by 78 churches — about one congregation for every 249 residents.
Churches near New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church
- Greater Liberty Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Illinois Southeast Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction — 0.1 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Is the Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shiloh AME Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Healing Temple Church — 0.4 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- Bread of Life Christian Center — 0.4 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- Israelite Spiritual Church — 0.4 mi away