Southern Mission Baptist Church
Southern Mission Baptist Church is a Baptist church in East Saint Louis, IL 62201. It is one of 65 churches in East Saint Louis, and one of 18 Baptist congregations in the city.
East Saint Louis, IL, 62201Southern Mission Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 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 Southern Mission 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. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 100.0%
- Obesity: 53.7%
- Food Insecurity: 53.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.4%
- Poverty Rate: 41.2% (25.7–56.8%)
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 25.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.1%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (3.9–16.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
East St. Louis city is served by 78 churches — about one congregation for every 249 residents.
Churches near Southern Mission Baptist Church
- Winstanley Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God Community Worship Center — 0.1 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Mount Pisgah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ninth Street Church of God In Christ — 0.5 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Saint Adalberts Roman Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Summit Avenue Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Charity Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mt Pisgah Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Gethsemane Church — 0.8 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Bethel Christian Worship Center — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Pisgah Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Summit Avenue Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mt Pisgah Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- Fifteenth Street Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mt Olive Baptist Church — 1 mi away in East St Louis, IL
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