West Side Baptist Church
West 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, 62864Website: http://west-side-baptist-church.com
West 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 West Side Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 44.2%
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.4%
- Food Insecurity: 24.6%
- Unemployment: 11.1% (4.0–18.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.7%
- Child Poverty: 28.1% (9.7–46.6%)
- Depression: 23.9%
- Poverty Rate: 21.6% (13.6–29.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.2%
- Diabetes: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Mount Vernon city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 277 residents.
Churches near West Side Baptist Church
- Family Life Assembly Of God — 0.1 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- New Life Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Southwest Christian Church — 0.6 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Free Will Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Mt. Vernon Church of God — 0.8 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Second Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Sugar Camp Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- South Side Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Logan Street Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.9 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Sugar Camp Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- South Side Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Logan Street Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Second Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
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