Zion Baptist Church
Zion Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 323 West Dr Martin Luther King Jr Drive in Peoria, IL 61605. It is one of 236 churches in Peoria, and one of 36 Baptist congregations in the city.
lead Zion to be a place where all people can come and receive help for their lives.
323 West Dr Martin Luther King Jr Drive, Peoria, IL, 61605Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (309) 676-4828 · Website: https://www.zionbcpeoria.com/
Zion 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 — 71,418 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.
Find Zion Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Zion 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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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%
- Obesity: 46.5%
- Poverty Rate: 44.0% (31.3–56.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.4%
- Diabetes: 19.6%
- Unemployment: 13.3% (7.8–18.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.4%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (5.6–19.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Peoria city is served by 130 churches — about one congregation for every 773 residents.
Churches near Zion Baptist Church
- Star of Hope Full Gospel Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- FUMCPeoriaYouth — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sacred Heart Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shepherd's Gate Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Riverside Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Star of Hope Full Gospel Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Good News Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Morgan Street Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away