South Side Baptist Church
South Side Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Mount Vernon, IL 62864. It is one of 57 churches in Mount Vernon, and one of 17 Baptist congregations in the city.
Mount Vernon, IL, 62864South Side 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 South Side Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 46.2%
- Food Insecurity: 28.8%
- Unemployment: 13.2% (5.3–21.0%)
- Social Isolation: 38.0%
- Child Poverty: 34.2% (16.9–51.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
- Poverty Rate: 24.8% (16.0–33.5%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.0%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Mount Vernon city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 277 residents.
Churches near South Side Baptist Church
- Mt. Vernon Church of God — 0.3 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Evangelistic Outreach Christian Center — 0.4 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Solid Rock Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.6 mi away
- New Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Second Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- First General Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- First General Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Sugar Camp Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
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