Walnut Street Baptist Church
Walnut Street Baptist Church is a Missionary Baptist church at 218 W Walnut St in Carbondale, IL 62901-2928. It is one of 56 churches in Carbondale, and one of 2 Missionary Baptist congregations in the city.
218 W Walnut St, Carbondale, IL, 62901-2928Phone: (618) 457-0479 · Website: https://carbondalemainstreet.com/businesses/religious-organizations/
Walnut Street 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 — 71,417 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 Walnut Street 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. More than half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 55.4%
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Food Insecurity: 35.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.1%
- Obesity: 44.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.1%
- Unemployment: 9.3% (1.0–17.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.4%
- Depression: 25.5%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Walnut Street Baptist Church
- Door the Christian Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rock Hill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Campus Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Savior Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- University Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Christ Church of Carbondale — 1.8 mi away
- Lakeland Baptist Church — 1.9 mi away
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