Mount Moriah Baptist Church
Mount Moriah Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Waterloo, IA 50703. It is one of 126 churches in Waterloo, and one of 21 Baptist congregations in the city.
Waterloo, IA, 50703Mount Moriah 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 Moriah Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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 about 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 families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 51.7%
- Food Insecurity: 31.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Unemployment: 17.0% (4.7–29.4%)
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Poverty Rate: 29.7% (19.1–40.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 21.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Waterloo city is served by 83 churches — about one congregation for every 813 residents.
Churches near Mount Moriah Baptist Church
- Hope City Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Prairie Lakes Church Waterloo Campus — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Temple Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Harvest Vineyard Church — 0.2 mi away
- La Cosecha de Waterloo — 0.3 mi away
- Queen of Peace Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Faith Temple Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away