Southern Mission Missionary Baptist Church
Southern Mission Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2801 State Street in East St Louis, IL 62205. It is one of 59 churches in East St Louis, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
2801 State Street, East St Louis, IL, 62205Southern Mission Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,173 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,350 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 Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 95.5%
- Obesity: 49.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.5%
- Food Insecurity: 34.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.5%
- Unemployment: 24.0% (8.2–40.0%)
- Diabetes: 22.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.8%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Poverty Rate: 22.8% (9.2–36.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 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 Missionary Baptist Church
- State Street Methodist Church — 0 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- Full Gospel Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- Saint Elizabeth Church — 0.3 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- Saint Patricks Church — 0.4 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- The Mind of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- St. Matthew Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- New Life Community Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- Calvary Pentecostal Church — 0.8 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
More Baptist churches nearby
- St. Matthew Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- Greater New Hope Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Marks Missionary Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- United Faith Missionary Baptist — 1.1 mi away
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