Mt Joy Baptist

Mt Joy Baptist is a Baptist church at 327 Olive Street in Edwardsville, IL 62025. It is one of 37 churches in Edwardsville, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.

Serving since 1869

327 Olive Street, Edwardsville, IL, 62025

Phone: (618) 656-0845 · Website: http://www.mtjoymbc.org/

Mt Joy Baptist 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 Mt Joy Baptist

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. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 34.7%
  • Unemployment: 8.8% (3.4–14.3%)
  • Obesity: 36.2%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Edwardsville city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 1,764 residents.

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