Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Kankakee, IL 60901. It is one of 73 churches in Kankakee, and one of 7 Baptist congregations in the city.
Growing Daily in Christ
Kankakee, IL, 60901Service times
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8am
- Tuesday 6:45pm
- Sunday 10am
Morning Star 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.
Ministries at Morning Star Baptist Church
- Children's Ministry
- Youth Ministries
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The community around Morning Star Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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: 74.7%
- Obesity: 50.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Food Insecurity: 40.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.6%
- Poverty Rate: 30.5% (18.4–42.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.8%
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
- Unemployment: 6.6% (0.7–12.7%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Kankakee city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 577 residents.
Churches near Morning Star Baptist Church
- Liberation Lighthouse Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Gate Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Friendship MB Church — 0.1 mi away
- Community Church of Holiness — 0.1 mi away
- New Jackson Tabernacle Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- True Holiness Apostolic Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Fatima Roman Catholic Mission — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saints Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Gate Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Friendship MB Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Gate Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away