Mount Hebron Baptist Church
Mount Hebron Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1338 9th Street in Des Moines, IA 50314. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 30 Baptist congregations in the city.
1338 9th Street, Des Moines, IA, 50314Website: http://www.mounthebronmbc.com
Mount Hebron Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 601 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 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 Mount Hebron Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the children here are growing up 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.
- Obesity: 49.6%
- Child Poverty: 44.7% (25.9–63.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.5%
- Poverty Rate: 34.4% (22.0–46.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.5%
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.7% (7.4–20.0%)
- Unemployment: 7.9% (0.1–15.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Des Moines city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 950 residents.
Churches near Mount Hebron Baptist Church
- Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Salvation Army Des Moines Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Mission — 0.2 mi away
- New Friendship Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mission Temple — 0.4 mi away
- New Jerusalem Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Our Savior's Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Nuevo Renacer En Cristo — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Our Savior's Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sweet Home Deliverance Church — 0.9 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away