St. John Missionary Baptist Church
St. John Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 309 Canal Street in Brooklyn, IL 62059. It is one of 12 churches in Brooklyn, and one of 6 Baptist congregations in the city.
309 Canal Street, Brooklyn, IL, 62059St. 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 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 nearly half 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: 53.6%
- Food Insecurity: 47.7%
- Child Poverty: 45.8% (27.1–64.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 45.4% (29.1–61.6%)
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.8%
- Diabetes: 22.4%
- Unemployment: 16.9% (4.7–29.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. John Missionary Baptist Church
- St. Elizabeth Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God in Christ Jesus All Nation — 0.1 mi away
- Lovejoy Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Brooklyn Christian Faith Center — 0.1 mi away
- First Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Transforming Word Church — 0.2 mi away
- Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Southern Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Southern Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away