Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3993 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive in Chicago, IL 60653. It is one of 3,017 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
3993 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Chicago, IL, 60653Website: http://www.morningstarbcofchicago.org/
Morning Star Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Morning Star 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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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.
- Child Poverty: 79.2%
- Food Insecurity: 41.2%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Poverty Rate: 39.7% (27.3–52.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.9%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.0%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (3.2–14.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2% (9.5–17.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Morning Star Baptist Church
- Metropolitan Apostolic Community Church Of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Works of Elohim International — 0.2 mi away
- Glorious Light Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Angels Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Grove Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- St Joseph Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.3 mi away