St. John Missionary Baptist Church

St. John Missionary Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 405 E 4th St in Alton, IL 62002-2414. It is one of 71 churches in Alton, and one of 2 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.

405 E 4th St, Alton, IL, 62002-2414

Service times

  • Sunday 9:30am · School takes place

Phone: (618) 465-5954 · Website: https://sjmbc.net/church/

St. John Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,419 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 St. John Missionary Baptist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,100 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.

  • Obesity: 46.0%
  • Food Insecurity: 26.1%
  • Social Isolation: 35.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 24.4% (12.5–36.3%)
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
  • Diabetes: 15.7%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.4%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
  • Unemployment: 6.2% (1.6–11.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.

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