Morning Star Baptist Church
Morning Star Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 156 N Greenwood Ave in Kankakee, IL 60901-4034. It is one of 73 churches in Kankakee, and one of 3 Baptist congregations in the city.
156 N Greenwood Ave, Kankakee, IL, 60901-4034Service times
- Sunday 8:30am · School
Phone: 16172980278 · Website: https://morningstarboston.org/
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.
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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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Obesity: 51.3%
- Food Insecurity: 43.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Poverty Rate: 35.6% (23.8–47.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (7.1–16.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
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