New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church
New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 413 West John H Gwynn Jr Avenue in Peoria, IL 61605. It is one of 236 churches in Peoria, and one of 33 Baptist congregations in the city.
413 West John H Gwynn Jr Avenue, Peoria, IL, 61605Service times
- Sunday 7:15am
- Sunday 10:45am
Phone: +1-309-674-6271 · Website: https://nmsbc.com/
New Morning Star Missionary 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 New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 79.3%
- Food Insecurity: 51.7%
- Obesity: 50.8%
- Poverty Rate: 47.9% (34.4–61.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.0%
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.8%
- Diabetes: 24.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (4.7–12.7%)
- Depression: 24.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Peoria city is served by 130 churches — about one congregation for every 773 residents.
Churches near New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Star of Hope Full Gospel Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- St. Joseph Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Martin de Porres Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Church Of Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 0.4 mi away
- FUMCPeoriaYouth — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Star of Hope Full Gospel Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away