Prince of Peace Missionary Baptist Church
Prince of Peace Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 711 East Arcadia Avenue in Peoria, IL 61603. It is one of 236 churches in Peoria, and one of 36 Baptist congregations in the city.
711 East Arcadia Avenue, Peoria, IL, 61603Website: http://theprinceofpeacembc.org
Prince of Peace Missionary Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,417 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 Prince of Peace Missionary Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Child Poverty: 79.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.7%
- Food Insecurity: 37.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.7%
- Unemployment: 22.9% (7.2–38.7%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.8%
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.1%
- Poverty Rate: 23.7% (11.9–35.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Peoria city is served by 130 churches — about one congregation for every 773 residents.
Churches near Prince of Peace Missionary Baptist Church
- Child Evangelism Fellowship of IL — 0.1 mi away
- Centerpoint Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Bernard's Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom of Deliverance Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Glen Oak Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- German Apostolic Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Community Chapel International Four Square Church — 0.5 mi away
- Arcadia Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- All Saints Greek Orthodox Church — 0.6 mi away
- Forrest Hill United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Morgan Street Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Peoria Friendship M.B. Church — 1.3 mi away
- Good News Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away